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Issue Details: First known date: 1795... 1795 A Voyage to New South Wales
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A semi-fictional travelogue falsely attributed to the famous pickpocket and convict-constable George Barrington. A Voyage to New South Wales is comprised mainly of material plagiarised from the colonial officer John Hunter's published journal An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (London: Stockdale, 1793), but it also contains a number of fictional episodes revolving around the character of the ostensible author, George Barrington, which lent added interest to the work. The most popular and accessible, if not the most reliable, of the early accounts of the New South Wales colony, the plagiaristic A Voyage to New South Wales was itself pirated in numerous editions and versions, and was translated into French, Russian, Swedish and Spanish.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       H. D. Symonds ,       1795 .
      Extent: 140p.p.
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      • Title continues: 'With a Description of the Country, the Manners, Customs, Religion, &c. of the Natives, In the Vicinty of Botany Bay. By George Barrington, Now Superintendant of the Convicts at Parramatta'.
      • Price: 'Half-a-Crown' [2s. 6d.]
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       H. D. Symonds ,       1796 .
      Extent: 140p.p.
      Edition info: 'The Third Edition'.
      Note/s:
      • Title (and price) as for first edition above, but for the error: 'Superintendant of the Convict at Parramatta'.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       H. D. Symonds ,       1796 .
      Extent: 140p.p.
      Edition info: 'The Fourth Edition'.
      Note/s:
      • Title and price as for first edition.
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    • London,
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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       M. Jones ,       1803 .
      Alternative title: An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales
      Extent: [xii], 467, [5] p.; [11] leaves of plates.p.
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon The Celebrated George Barrington : A Spurious Author, the Book Trade, and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , Potts Point : Hordern House , 2008 Z1545880 2008 single work criticism
Selling a Penal Colony : The Booksellers and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 31 no. 1 2007; (p. 20-38)
y separately published work icon The Celebrated George Barrington : A Spurious Author, the Book Trade, and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , Potts Point : Hordern House , 2008 Z1545880 2008 single work criticism
Selling a Penal Colony : The Booksellers and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 31 no. 1 2007; (p. 20-38)
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