Australia’s First Preacher : the Rev. Richard Johnson, first Chaplain of New South Wales

A$150 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

London : Sampson Low, Marston Co., 1898. Octavo, textured cloth (edges rubbed), bookplate and library wet stamp of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Library (of which Johnson was a member), with Withdrawn stamps, hinges cracked, pp. vii; [blank]; 264, folding plate of facsimile manuscript, a good copy. Rev. Richard Johnson was chaplain to the First Fleet and the first clergyman in the colony. He was the author of An address to the inhabitants of the colonies established in New South Wales and Norfolk Island , (1794) the first book circulated in Australia and the first book directed to an Australian audience (Wantrup). Ferguson 7266

• Binding: Hardcover

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