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y separately published work icon Australia : A Moral and Descriptive Poem single work   poetry   "As the clear spring, now flowing from the cave,"
Note: 'By the author of The Voyage'. (At foot of title page)
Issue Details: First known date: 1833... 1833 Australia : A Moral and Descriptive Poem
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Notes

  • Single poem. Published anonymously.

  • Dedication: To Captain Sir William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S. etc etc etc.

    The formal dedication is followed by an extended message from the author to Sir William Parry. The message is dated:
    King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales, February, 1833.

  • The author explains that this publication is the first six cantos of what is intended to be a much longer poem.
  • Each canto is preceded by an epigraph.
  • An advertisement announcing the forthcoming publication of this poem was placed in the Sydney Monitor on 5 January 1833. Subscribers were instructed to leave their names at the Reading Room, Pitt Street or at the Australian Stationery Warehouse. Cost of the poem for subscribers was five shillings; for non-subscribers seven shillings and sixpence.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: R. Mansfield , 1833 .
      Printed by Stephens and Stokes
      Extent: 77p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes a preface and an introductory essay by the author together with end notes (pp.71-77).
      • Ferguson no. 1731.
      • Pages numbered i-xvi, 17-77.
      • Copy held by the National Library of Australia includes a handwritten note: By the Rev. William Woolls.
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  • New South Wales,
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