Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 4 no. 265 9 May 1838 of Commercial Journal and Advertiser est. 1835 Commercial Journal and Advertiser
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* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Card, single work advertisement
William Baker thanks ‘the Ladies and Gentlemen of New South Wales for the very liberal support bestowed on him since his arrival in the Colony (now four years)’. His ‘established Engraving and Copper-plate Printing Office’ is at 19 King–street East.
(p. 1)
The Forager : An American Tale, single work short story (p. 4)
Picture of a Sensualist, single work column

Sketch of a day in the life of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, French food journalist and author of Almanach des Gourmands. The column is [probably republished from an international source.

(p. 4)
The London Press, single work column

Comment on and publication of a Parliamentary Return list of the number of stamps issued in March 1837 to London newspapers, the number of advertisements published in each and the amount of duties paid. The author writes that 'the whole [Parliamentary Return] is not sufficiently entertaining to the colonial reader to induce us to copy it entire'.

(p. 4)
English Annuals for 1838, single work advertisement

An advertisement for various books for sale including international literary annuals and works by international writers George Gordon Byron, William Cowper, Oliver Goldsmith and John Milton.

An advertisement listing just the annuals for sale appears in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser in May 1838.

(p. 4)
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