Gudgeon (Thomas Wayth)The Defenders of New Zealand, First edition, inscribed by the printer to writer Louis Becke [George Lewis Becke] to verso of frontispiece, chromolithographic frontispiece and double-paged plate, 7 further plates, some spotting throughout, original pictorial gilt morocco, rubbed, damage at head of spine with some loss, [Bagnall 2370], 4to, Auckland, H. Brett, 1887.***George Lewis Becke (1855 – 1913) was an Australian-born writer and ethnographer of the South Pacific region.