The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser. Vols I – II, 1803-1805.

A$325,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

THE CRADLE OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA : AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY ISSUES OF AUSTRALIA S FIRST NEWSPAPER, FROM ITS FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION. Sydney : G. Howe, 1803-05. A total of 91 (ninety-one) issues, housed in two calf clamshell cases, silk-lined and with gilt lettering, custom made to the highest standard. Vol. I (No. 1, March 5, 1803 No. 52, February 26, 1804): a bound run of 50 weekly issues (out of 52, with Nos. 1 and 8 supplied in separately bound facsimile), in a colonial Sydney binding (c.1820), quarter calf over marbled paper boards, expertly conserved. Vol. II (No. 53, March 4, 1804 No. 104, February 24, 1805): 41 weekly issues (lacking Nos. 53, 54, 68, 69, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 90, 95, also lacking the first leaves of Nos. 79 and 91). Each issue comprises a single sheet folded into 4 pages foolscap with 3 printed columns of text on each page, the early and late issues with some water staining, but entirely legible, the majority of issues remarkably well preserved, with original folds (a minimal amount of tearing) and some toning, a few issues inscribed with the original subscribers names of either Mr. [William?] Hibbard or Mr. William Blake. The first issue of Australia s first newspaper, The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser , was published on Saturday March 5 1803 by George Howe, a convict who had been appointed Government Printer due to his experience working on the London Times . In a despatch to Lord Ho

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