James Maclehose published The Picture of Sydney and Stranger's Guide in New South Wales for 1838 and The Picture of Sydney and Stranger's Guide in New South Wales for 1839. The latter was a reprint with, according to the Powerhouse Museum catalogue record for the work, 'almost no revision'. The Powerhouse Museum notes that the Sydney engraver, James Carmichael, produced 42 engravings of scenes and buildings in Sydney and surrounds for the work.
A review of The Picture of Sydney (1838) published in the Australian Magazine, January 1838, quotes extensively from an article describing the Australian aboriginal people.
Advertisements for the 1838 work were published in Sydney newspapers in January 1838 and for the 1839 edition in December 1838.
Source: Powerhouse Museum. Web. 16/07/2014
Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
James Maclehose was a Scottish bookseller, publisher and printer, who owned James MacLehose and Sons with his brother, Robert. His Picture of Sydney is a travel guide to New South Wales, published in 1839. The work provides advice to emigrants, and was divided into hints for mechanical, agricultural and commercial emigrants. It also includes advice for convicts, where Maclehose presents hints for convicts in a moralistic and corrective manner. He also described streets and public buildings of Sydney, detailing the urban landscape and the history of the built environment, as well as providing an account of the mountains and rivers that surround Sydney, and the Aboriginal population of the colony. The work was embellished with forty-four engravings of public buildings and landscapes.
