Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4016 10 May 1838 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales 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.
English Annuals for 1838, single work advertisement

This advertisement for various Annuals consists of the top half of an advertisement published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser in May 1838 under the same title. A list of other works for sale, including those by English writers George Gordon Byron, William Cowper, Oliver Goldsmith and John Milton, which appeared in the Commercial Journal is missing in the Sydney Gazette version.

See also the related version first published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 2 May 1838.

(p. 1)
To the Journeymen Compositors of Great Britain and Ireland, single work correspondence

A group of Sydney compositors respond to an advertisement placed in the Australian on 1 May 1838. The advertisement suggested that there was work in the colony for thirty to forty compositors, but the local workers believed this assertion to be misleading.

In their open letter to the Trade Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, the local workmen outline the make-up of the local printing industry, noting that it is largely newspaper work and that 'book work is almost totally unknown in the Colony'. They state that the current numbers of compositors are: 44 free Compositors, 8 assigned Compositors, and 13 apprentices'.

The letter also highlights the wages that can be expected in the colony, the dearth of work in Van Diemen's Land and Swan River, and the suspicious fact that the advertisement has appeared only in the Australian and not in any of the other colonial newspapers.

In fact the advertisement, 'To the Printers of Great Britain' (link is to the version of the advertisement in the Sydney Gazette, 1 May 1838) was published in several Sydney, New South Wales, newspapers in May 1838. Individual newspapers added a paragraph to the advertisement further encouraging pressmen and or compositors to apply. The Australian newspaper's extra paragraph stated that '[t]hirty or forty Compositors would also find employment in the Colony, at a higher rate of wages than they obtain in England.'

The correspondence is signed by James Harrison, Thomas Armstrong, John Paterson, Alexander Barrie, Peter Tyler, John Laurie and John Rawson.

(p. 3)
Note: Editor's note: [The late hour at which we received the above advertisement prevents our replying to it in to-day's Gazette. We will exposed the erroneous statements it contains in our next publication, that the 'Journeymen Compositors of Great Britain and Ireland' may not be deterred from coming to Sydney by the combination of the would-be monopolising printers of Sydney. - Ed. Sydney Gazette.]
Royal Victoria Theatre : The Housekeeper &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for performance on 10 May 1838. The advertisement concludes with the note that 'Sheridan Knowles' admired Tragedy of Virginius' is '[i]n preparation , and to be produced on Monday next, with new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations ...'

(p. 3)

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Notes:
Contains the 31st instalment of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, (p. 4).
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