Item #115900 Michael Howe. The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land. Narrative of the Chief Atrocities committed by this Great Murderer and his Associates during a Period of Six Years in Van Diemen's Land. Thomas Edward WELLS.

WELLS, Thomas Edward

Michael Howe. The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land. Narrative of the Chief Atrocities committed by this Great Murderer and his Associates during a Period of Six Years in Van Diemen's Land

Sydney, Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1926.

Octavo, 40 pages with a full-page manuscript facsimile.

Quarter cloth and papered boards, with a paper title-label on the front cover; head of the spine a little bumped; later ownership stamp and small private library number on the front flyleaf; a very good copy.

Number 8 of only 100 copies signed by the publisher ('A&R'). The flyleaf carries an additional inscription, 'L.S.C. from A&R'. Thomas Wells (1782-1833) 'clerk and writer, was convicted, probably of embezzlement, at the London Gaol Delivery on 3 April 1816 and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years. He arrived in Sydney in the "Sir William Bensley" and went on to Hobart Town next year in the "Cochin", the ship which brought the new lieutenant-governor, William Sorell. He served as Sorell's clerk throughout his governorship' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').