Advertisement for Tegg's New South Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer 1838.
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.
Advertisement for the sale of about 300 books additional to those advertised as part of a circulating library. Books for sale include 'Scott's Miscellaneous Prose Works, 6 vols., Mrs. [Anna Letitia] Barbauld's ditto, Hume's Essays ... Southey's Life of the Duke of Wellington (a splendid work), Old Man of the Mountains [The Old Man of the Mountain, by Ludwig Tieck?], Mirabeau's Letters, Mrs Chapone's Letters, Mrs Barbauld's Legacy to Young Ladies etc.'
The circulating library itself seems not to have a separate advertisement in this or subsequent issues of the Sydney Gazette. The Colonist (17 February 1838): 1, advertises an 'Evening Sale of Books' to be sold at auction by Isaac Simmons and Co. on Friday February 23 at Simmons' Auction Mart, 'when the room will be lit up for the occasion'.The library for sale is described as 'A complete Circulating Library, containing about 1000 Volumes of the most popular Novels, Romances, History,Travels, etc., of all the approved Ancient and Modern Writings, together with a general selection of amusing and entertaining Literature.' The advertisement advises 'Gentlemen who may be serious of completing their Libraries will have an excellent opportunity of so doing at this sale.'
An auction of 'Seven Hundred Volumes - Continuation Sale of the Circulating Library' is advertised in the Australian (27 February 1838): 3
Advertisement for: Performance on 22 February 1838 of: 'the Burlesque Nautical Burletta, in Two Acts, entitled Billy Taylor, or, The Gay Young Fellow', [John Baldwin Buckstone, 1829]; and ‘to conclude with (for the first time this Season) The Historical Drama, in 3 Acts, called Tower of Nesle, or, The Chamber of Death’.
The advertisement ends with the public being ’most respectfully informed that the Grand Romantic Drama of Faustus, with new scenery, machinery, dresses, etc, is in active preparation and will shortly be produced.’
An advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 22 February 1838 to include the 'Burlesque Nautical Burletta, in Two Acts, entitled Billy Taylor', and the 'Historical Drama, in 3 acts, called, The Tower of Nesle'. Advance notice of forthcoming production of the 'Grand Romantic Drama of Faustus'.
