Item #139456 A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales, comprising an Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts; the Progress of the Colony; an Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences and Executions that have taken place: a Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs &c. of the Natives, - as likewise Authentic Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Characters, and Notorious Convicts that have been transported to the Settlement of New South Wales. George BARRINGTON.
A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales, comprising an Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts; the Progress of the Colony; an Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences and Executions that have taken place: a Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs &c. of the Natives, - as likewise Authentic Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Characters, and Notorious Convicts that have been transported to the Settlement of New South Wales

A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales, comprising an Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts; the Progress of the Colony; an Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences and Executions that have taken place: a Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs &c. of the Natives, - as likewise Authentic Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Characters, and Notorious Convicts that have been transported to the Settlement of New South Wales

London, Printed and Published by C. Lowndes and sold by H.D. Symonds, 1800 [first edition].

Octavo, viii, [5]-110, [6] pages (bound with the half-title and integral blank at the rear).

Later half calf and cloth slightly sunned and rubbed; endpapers and adjacent leaves a little browned from the turn-ins; pinholes in the inner margins where previously sewn; a few unobtrusive spots of foxing and trifling signs of use; an excellent copy.

An early chapbook relating to New South Wales, spuriously attributed to Third Fleet convict George Barrington. 'The first of these fraudulent "Barrington" accounts was published in London by the chapbook publisher H.D. Symonds in 1795 as "A Voyage to New South Wales" ... So popular was this "voyage" that the original publisher .... had "A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage" printed in 1800 ... While the ascription of these two volumes to Barrington is false, the books themselves are not without value ... No new books had been published to satisfy the public demand that clearly still existed, particularly among the poor who could not afford the expensive journals of the First Fleet officers' (Wantrup 2023, page 111).

Wantrup 26; Ferguson 303; Garvey AB18.

Item #139456

Price (AUD): $2,500.00

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