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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 The Quest for Australia's Oldest Surviving Printed Document
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Colin Warner looks at the possibility that a lost playbill for a performance of The Busybody and The Poor Soldier on 23 July 1796, may be the ealiest known printed document in Australia.

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    y separately published work icon Margin no. 62 April 2004 Z1122147 2004 periodical issue 2004 pg. 4-9
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