y separately published work icon Outward Bound : A Poem : Containing an Account in Verse of a Voyage in the Roxburgh Castle from England to Australia in 1863 selected work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1863... 1863 Outward Bound : A Poem : Containing an Account in Verse of a Voyage in the Roxburgh Castle from England to Australia in 1863
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    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Smithett and McKimm , 1863 .
      Extent: 68p.
      Note/s:
      • This work contains the long poem, 'Outward Bound', interspersed with smaller poems as indexed below.
      • Preface by the author.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Wilson and Mackinnon , 1864 .
      Alternative title: Outward bound : a poem : containing an account in verse of a voyage in the "Roxburgh Castle" from England to Australia, together with a remarkable adventure &c. &c.
      Extent: vi, 83 p.p.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Clarson, Shallard and Co. , 1864 .
      Alternative title: Outward bound : a poem : containing an account in verse of a voyage in the "Roxburgh Castle" from England to Australia, together with a remarkable adventure &c. &c.
      Extent: vi, 96 p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Contains a list of 'Subscribers to the First & Second Editions' (pp.v-vi), and a section of critics' quotes, 'Opinions of the Press' (pp.94-96)
      • Author's note: [The author] has added an account in verse of a most remarkable adventure, and a most providential escape from death which followed... At the end of his work is a reprint of the paragraph in The Times of April 21, 1856, giving the newspaper account of the remarkable accident alluded to.
      • This work contains the long poem, 'Outward Bound', interspersed with and followed by smaller poems as indexed below, and followed by 'Loss in a Coal Pit', an article from The Times (pp.92-94).
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