Ralph Rashleigh, or the life of an exile. (Deluxe edition)

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Now first published from the original manuscript. Edited with introduction and notes by Colin Roderick, M. A. Sydney and London : Angus and Robertson, 1952. Folio, gilt-lettered quarter crushed morocco by Sangorski Sutcliffe, London, gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial map endpapers (signed Mayo), etched frontispiece titled Port Hunter, 1832 by Geoffrey Ingleton, signed by the artist, pp. l; [iv]; 331; 10 photographic plates. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies signed by the editor Colin Roderick, printed on rag paper at the Halstead Press, finely bound in London, with an original Ingleton etching. James Rosenberg Tucker (1808-1888) was an Australian convict and author from Bristol, England. Under the pseudonym Giacomo di Rosenberg, Tucker wrote his autobiographical Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile in 1844. It was published in a heavily edited form in 1929, and his original manuscript was published in 1952. Tucker was convicted at the Chelmsford Spring Assizes on 3 March 1826 of blackmailing his cousin, James Stanyford Tucker. He was tried before Sir William Alexander, C.B., On an indictment for sending a threatening letter accus[ing] of an infamous crime and sentenced to transportation for life. He was 18 years old at the time. The next year he was put aboard the convict ship Midas, which sailed for Sydney Cove. He arrived in Sydney in 1827 and worked at Emu Plains, New South Wales. Still a convict, he was sent to Port Macquarie in 1844. He was in Go

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