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The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of his Fourteen Years Transportation, at Virginia, in America single work   poetry   "My loving countrymen, pray lend an ear"
Issue Details: First known date: 1740... 1740 The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of his Fourteen Years Transportation, at Virginia, in America
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      ca. 1740-1800 .
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      • No place or publisher's name given. Given the approximate date "1780?" in the English Short Title catalogue
      • ESTC: T173866
      ca. 1740-1800 .
      Extent: 8p.p.
      Note/s:

      • "Licensed and enterter'd [sic] according to Order."

        No publisher's imprint or place of publication.

      • ESTC: N66540
    • Dublin, Dublin (County),
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      Ireland,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       B. Corcoran ,       ca. 1744-1774 .
      Extent: 8p.p.
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      • Full imprint:

        "Dublin: Printed for B. Corcoran, on the Inns Quay near the Cloysters."

    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sympson's Printing Office ,       ca. 1760-1790 .
      Extent: 8p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Full imprint:

        "Sold at Sympson's Printing-Office, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market."

    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Aldermary Churchyard ,       ca. 1764-1775 .
      Extent: 8p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Full imprint:

        "London, Printed & Sold in Aldermary Churchyard."

    • Somerset,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       A. & J. Pile ,       ca. 1780 .
      Alternative title: "...History of the Life of John Lauson,"
      Note/s:
      • ESTC: 196718
      • The only known copy of this edition, in the collection of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, has an ownership inscription dated 1780.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Aldermary Churchyard ,       ca. 1782-1798 .
      Extent: 8p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Full imprint:

        "Printed by J, Marshall, Aldermary Church-Yard, London."

    • Dublin, Port Gawler - Mallala area, Lower North South Australia, South Australia,: the Hawkers [Dublin] , ca. 1800 .
      Alternative title: "...Life of James Ruel"
      Extent: 8p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Full imprint:

        "Dublin. Printed and Sold by the Hawkers."

      • No. 116 in a series of chapbooks "Printed and Sold by the Hawkers."
      • ESTC: T51872
    • York, Yorkshire,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       C. Croshaw ,       ca. 1811-1830 .
      image of person or book cover 6179898184869281624.jpg
      Link: 6028387Full text document
      Extent: 8p.p.
      Note/s:
      • The approximate date of publication given by the Documenting the American South website – "[ca. 1800]" – is too early. Evidence from trade directories, poll books, and newspapers suggests that the printer C. Croshaw was trading at Coppergate, York, from about 1811 until 1830.
    • Birmingham, West Midlands,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Bloomer, printer ,       ca. 1821-1822 .
      Extent: 1p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Imprint: "T. Bloomer, 42 Edgbaston Street, Birmingham."
Alternative title: The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of his 14 Years Transportation at Botany Bay
    • Sheffield, South Yorkshire,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       J. Crome ,       1815 .
      Extent: 8p.p.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 55-8
    Note: Epigraph: Giving a sorrowful account of his fourteen years transportation to Botany Bay, in New South Wales, in February, 1808, and his return home in March 1st, 1822. Being a remarkable and sufficient history of the Life of James Revel, The Unhappy Sufferer. Who was put as a prentice, by his father, to a tinner, near Moor Fields; from whom he ran away, and got into bad company, and went a robbing with a gang of thieves, for which he was Transported for Fourteen Years. With an account of the way the transports work the punishments inflicted on them for committing any faults. With A Word of Advice to all young Men and Women.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Transport's Lament : Early Broadsides Relating to Australia Ronald George Edwards (editor), Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 Z1604106 1986 anthology poetry lyric/song Edwards received the Australian Folk Trust Fellowship in 1985, and travelled to Britain to study broadside ballads relating to early Australia. He made facsimile copies of a considerable number of ballads with an Australian reference, which are reproduced in this work and in the companion volume The Convict Maid (1985). Edwards published revised and enlarged editions of both works in 1988: the revised editions include musical settings of the ballads. Kuranda : Rams Skull Press , 1986 pg. 54
    Note: Facsimile of broadside. Epigraph: Giving a sorrowful account of his fourteen years transportation to Botany Bay, in New South Wales, in February, 1808, and his return home in March 1st, 1822. Being a remarkable and sufficient history of the Life of James Revel, The Unhappy Sufferer. Who was put as a prentice, by his father, to a tinner, near Moor Fields; from whom he ran away, and got into bad company, and went a robbing with a gang of thieves, for which he was Transported for Fourteen Years. With an account of the way the transports work the punishments inflicted on them for committing any faults. With A Word of Advice to all young Men and Women.
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