'This famous edition was printed and published by Henry Dowling in 25 parts with coloured wrappers, from August to December, 1838. The lithographed illustrations did not appear until some weeks later, and were then presented gratis to subscribers who brought their sets of the parts to the publisher for "putting into boards," the only charge being the expense of binding. The book was advertised to appear in cloth in July, 1839, at the price of thirty shillings.
'The illustrations, which are signed "Tiz", in imitationof "Phiz" of the London issue, are very good copies of the originals; they are generally considered to have been the work of Jack Briggs, a servant of Dowling, the publisher. Wainwright, the poisoner, who had been transported to Van Diemen's Land, is, however, sometimes put forward as the artist.'
Source: John Alexander Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia : Volume II: 1831-1838 (1945)
Contemporary newspaper advertisements describe this edition as a 're-publishing in Weekly Parts of twenty-four closely printed pages ... every Saturday morning. The wrapper ... will be devoted to advertisements ... a most desirable mode of publishing notifications of sales by private contract, terms of schools, of general business, &c. &c.'
