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Issue Details: First known date: 1853... 1853 Laughing a Crime, or, Twenty Pounds No Comedy : A Poem on the Malpractices of the Government and Its Emissaries on the Gold-Fields of Ballarat : With a Cursory View of Other Matters Relative Thereto
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Notes

  • Noted by Miller and Macartney as the first book of local verse to be published in Victoria.

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: B. A. Hunter , 1853 .
      Extent: 24p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • End of the book is signed, 'A Canadian Gully Gold-Digger'.
      • Reprinted in the second edition of From Tent to Parliament: The Life of Peter Lalor: History of the Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic, ca. 1904).
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