Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 3079 13 February 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
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Just Published Just Pubished [sic], single work advertisement

Advertisement for Tegg's New South Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer 1838.

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Ex 'Marquis of Hastings' : Standard Works, single work advertisement

Advertisement for a lengthy list of books for sale including, Cook's (Capt.) Voyages Round the World and other works of biography, autobiography, and travel. Shakespeare's Dramatic Works (1 vol.), Aesop's Fables, Nights of the Round Table, and the Life and Exploits of Don Quixote. Novels include Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by Mrs Hannah More, works by Mrs Hemans [Felicia Hemans] and Mrs Hofland [Barbara Hofland]. Works for children are advertised including Original Tales for Infant Minds, Rhymes for the Nursery, Juvenile Everyday Book, Mrs Leslie and her Grandchildren [by Mrs Hamerton] and Tales for Winter Evenings. Other titles include, Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights of Mess, and Other Tales [by James White], Encyclopaedia of Romance, by [the Rev. Henry] Martineau, Anecdote Library, Seymour's Comic Album, Mirror of Literature [Amusement and instruction], Sherwood Forest and Other Poems [by Robert Millhouse], Bowdler's Poems and Essays, and London Minstrel, a Collection of Songs Set to Music. Non-fiction titles include encyclopaedias and dictionaries, works on history, domestic sciences, religion, the animal and plant kingdoms, Redding on Wines, medicine, phrenology, temperance and books for the school room.

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The Pickwick Papers, single work column

The Sydney Gazette notes that '[w]e have received the first sixteen numbers of these humorous publications, and intend copying them into consecutive numbers of this journal, commencing from Tuesday next.'

The Gazette began serialising the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club from Saturday 24 February 1838.

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[Untitled], single work column (p. 2)
Sydney General Trade List : Monday, February 12, 1838 : Imports, single work column

Imports listed include: February 8 - Perseverance '... 1 box books, ... Lamb & Parbury'; '2 cases books, Rev. W. Cowper'; '6 cases books, J. Tegg'

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Advertisement : William Baker, single work advertisement

Advertisement for: '...just received from Ireland, ex Jessie, a large assortment of Religious Catholic Books ... also ... a variety of other entertaining Works [are] on hand, among which are the Dublin Penny Journal, in 4 volumes complete, Moore's Irish Melodies, Stories and Legends of Ireland, by [Samuel] Lover, School Books, etc, etc, etc.'

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Theatre Royal, Sydney : Melmoth the Wanderer &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for: Performance on 13 February 1838 of: 'for the second time in the Colony the Melo Dramatic Romance, in 3 Acts entitled,Melmoth the Wanderer, and Walberg, the Victim'; and 'the Operatic Burlesque Burletta, in two Acts called, Orthello Travestie, With all the original Songs, Duets, etc as performed at the London Theatres'.

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