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My Country. A poem by Dorothea Mackellar with decorations and illustrations by J.J. Hilder, Sydney 1915, p.21915
Jessie Hilder, artist, first exhibited at the Society of Artists, Sydney, in 1907 where his watercolours were highly praised. He became a full-time professional artist in 1909 but died from tuberculosis in 1916. (Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9).