04060cam a22004451i 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401900120006503500210007703500110009804000330010904200090014210000440015124500870019526400530028226400400033530000240037533600340039933700250043333800230045850000820048150002760056350003680083950001150120750003050132250008780162751000520250551000650255753000950262253000330271758502350275058501770298565000430316265100530320577600540325877600540331277600540336685601290342085600650354977781220210205114002.0840515s1841 xna 000 0 eng 1 a3103706 9(AuCNLDY)1566921 a777812 aANLbengcANLdAUCerdadANL aanuc1 aWaring Atkinson, Charlotte,d1796-1867.12aA Mother's offering to her children /cby a lady long resident in New South Wales. 1a[Sydney] :b[George Evans, Bookseller],c[1841]. 3aSydney :bPrinted at the 'Gazette'. a216 pages ;c18 cm. atextastill image2rdacontent aunmediated2rdamedia avolume2rdacarrier aAccording to J.A. Ferguson, the first children's book published in Australia. aOriginally attributed to Lady Bremer, wife of Sir James John Gordon Bremer, in J.A. Ferguson's Bibliography of Australia. More recently attibuted to Charlotte Barton in Marcie Muir's Charlotte Barton : Australia's first children's author (Sydney : Wentworth Books, 1980). aBorn Charlotte Waring, sailed for Sydney in the Cumberland in 1826 and married James Atkinson in 1827 but was widowed in 1834; she re-married to George Bruce Barton in 1836. -- 'Barton, Charlotte (1796-1867)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barton-charlotte-12787. aNational Library of Australia's FC F3158 copy is quarter bound in dark green leather with marbled boards.5ANL aNational Library of Australia's FRM F3158 (N, Petherick) copy quarter brown in brown marbled boards; G.W. Evans, George Street, Sydney binder's ticket inside front cover; Petherick blind stamp to title page; penciled annotation on Preface page below the author: "Mrs (Lady) J. J. Gordon Bremer".5ANL aNational Library of Australia's FRM F3158 (N2, Parliament) copy quarter bound in green marbled boards; inscribed inside front cover and on p. 76, "Charles James" with some colouring in also on the title page; half title missing; manuscript corrections in ink of "hands" to "heads" (p. 8), "could" to "would" (p. 45), "in" to "on" (p. 46), "nose" to "noses" (p. 49), "bit" to "but" (p. 75), "Lightning" to "Lightwing" (p. 85), "notions" to "motions" and "instict" to "instinct" (p. 87), "them" to "him" (p. 177) and other typesetting/printing errors on p. 19, 27, 47 and 83; also inscribed in ink, "Capt. D'Oyley [Thomas D'Oyley] was mortally wounded at Agra 5th July 1857, in an engagement with the mutineers." (p. 83) and in pencil, "the black people was very [wondrous?] in these times. W. Calvert" (p. 209); stamped 14561 and Paliament of the Commonwealth Library.5ANL4 aFerguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia,c31584 aMuir, M. A bibliography of Australian children's books,c559 3FRM F3158 (N2, Parliament) copyaalso available onlineuhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-33391843 aAlso available on microfilm. aNational Library of Australia's FRM F3158 (N2, Parliament) copy exhibited: "National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries". Touring exhibition December 2005 - August 2007, organised by the National Library of Australia.5ANL aNational Library of Australia's copies all exhibited: "Story Time: Australian Children's Literature", National Library of Australia, 22 August 2019 - 16 February 2020.5ANL 0aShipwreckszOceaniaxJuvenile fiction. 0aAustraliaxHistoryy1788-1900xJuvenile fiction.1 tMother's offering to her childrenw(AKIN)115297971 tMother's offering to her childrenw(AKIN)136174721 tMother's offering to her childrenw(AKIN)2867554241zNational Library of Australia digitised item. FRM F3158 (N2, Parliament) copy.uhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-33391843xfulltext41zSETIS textuhttp://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/barmoth