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Issue Details: First known date: 1929... 1929 Ralph Rashleigh, or, The Life of an Exile
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    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Jonathan Cape ,       1929 .
      Alternative title: The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh : A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825-1844
      Link: 8490183Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: 349; 5 leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., facsims.
      Note/s:
      • Introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead.
      • Publisher's Note regarding the manuscript: '...It was sent to us by Mr Charles H. Bertie, the well-known librarian of Sydney, New South Wales. Mr Bertie explained to us that it had come into his hands from a man who had inherited it from his wife's father, in whose possession it had remained for thirty years. Mr Bertie read the manuscript and was so sure of its importance that he had it typed and sent to us in England. We recognised its value and interest, but the archaic literary style of the writer made us doubt whether the book would be acceptable to modern readers. So the manuscript was rewritten, but with absolute fidelity to the original story...some pages of [the] precious and ragged original are reproduced in this book...'
      • Digitised by AustLit in cooperation with SETIS, 2003.
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Jonathan Cape ,       1931 .
      Alternative title: The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh : a penal exile in Australia 1825-1844
      Extent: 349, 35, [5] leaves of plates : facsims.p.
      Reprinted: 1939
      Series: The Life and Letters Series Jonathan Cape (publisher), series - publisher Number in series: 20
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Jonathan Cape ,       1933 .
      Alternative title: The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh : a penal exile in Australia
      Extent: 256 [12]p.p.
      Series: Florin Books Jonathan Cape (publisher), series - publisher
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       George Newnes ,       1936 .
      Alternative title: The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh : a penal exile in Australia, 1825-1844
      Extent: 255p.
Alternative title: Ralph Rashleigh : un forcat en Australie
Language: French
Notes:
After 1952, all editions used the text edited by Colin Roderick from the original manuscript.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1952 .
      Alternative title: Ralph Rashleigh
      Extent: xii, 303p.p.
      Edition info: Popular edition.
      Reprinted: 1952 , 1953 Revised Foreword by Colin Roderick.
      Note/s:
      • Title page verso : The text of this popular edition has been edited by Colin Roderick from the original manuscript, written in 1845 at Port Macquarie by James Tucker alias Giacomo di Rosenberg.
      • Maps on lining papers.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1952 .
      Extent: xlix, 331p., [x] leaves of platesp.
      Limited edition info: Original edition of one thousand copies.
      Description: illus., plates, tables, facsims.
      Written as: 'Giacomo Di Rosenberg' (James Tucker)
      Note/s:
      • Epigraph: 'Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable' - Rochefoucault
      • Edited with Introduction and Notes by Colin Roderick.
      • 'Now first published from the original manuscript' (t.p.)
      • No date on t.p. On verso: 'First published in full 1952'. Publisher's note refers to 'this authentic edition of his [Tucker's] novel.
      • Appendix: Photographic Proofs of Authorship.
      • Includes bibliography.
      • Maps on lining papers.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pacific Books , 1962 .
      Extent: xii, 303 p.p.
      Reprinted: 1970 ISBN: 0207948305
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Colin Roderick.
      • Unexpurgated under title and author on t.p.
      Series: Pacific Books Angus and Robertson (publisher), 1961 series - publisher The establishment of this paperback imprint of Angus Robertson was spearheaded by Beatrice Davis. It started with print runs of 20,000 in 1961 (Paper Empires: History of Book in Australia, 18).This paperback series, published by Angus and Robertson, contains both numbered and unnumbered volumes.
    • Hawthorn, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Lloyd O'Neil , 1970 .
      Alternative title: The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh: a penal exile in Australia 1825-1844
      Extent: 349p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes Introduction by Birkenhead from 1929 edition.
      Series: Australian Classics (Lloyd O'Neil) Lloyd O'Neil (publisher), series - publisher
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Folio Society ,       1977 .
      Alternative title: Ralph Rashleigh
      Extent: 341p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Publisher's Note: The text used here follows the 1952 edition published by Angus & Robertson... (p.20)
      • Introduced and edited by Colin Roderick.
      • Introduction also includes the 1929 introduction by Lord Birkenhead.
      • Maps on lining papers.
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    England,
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
  • Queensland,
  • Bush,
  • Coast,
  • 1820-1849
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