London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary binder's cloth, one leaf with circular tear into the bottom line of text, one plate with small circular tear to corner but not affecting image, otherwise a clean copy, very scarce.

The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the first fascicle of an intended larger work on Australian fish which was never continued.

Dean II, 345; Nissen ZBI, 3387.