AustLit

Advertisement for: 'on board the Kinnear, a limited number of the above Publication [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] now completed with upward of 50 Humourous Illustrations by Cruikshank, neatly bound, and will be landed in a few days.

Moffitt also advertises 'Walter Scott's Novels complete in 16 vols. ... Martin's New South Wales [possibly R. Montgomery Martin's History of Austral-Asia published in London in 1836] ... and other Works of Standard Merit.'

William Jones of 'BRICKFIELD HILL, (Between Liverpool and Goulburn Street), BEGS to apprise his Friends and the Public, that he has a commercial business in the above lines with a large and well selected Stock of Modern & Standard Publications'.

Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 3 May 1838 ‘Under the distinguished Patronage of the Sons of St Patrick’ of William Shakespeare's 'Play in 5 Acts, entitled The Merchant of Venice' and 'the Farce, called The Irish Tutor'.

Advertisement for: Printing services, 'has just received by the Ferguson, the largest and most splendid Printing Press ever imported'. The advertisement was published in Sydney, New South Wales, newspapers during the month of May 1838.

Advertisement for: 'R. Clint having purchased the whole Aparatus of Mr. J. G. Austin, Lithographer, and engaged his Supervisor for a period, he will be enabled to execute Lithography in a style worthy of public countenance.'

An advertisement for book binding, engraving, copperplate and lithographic printing.

An advertisement for various books for sale including international literary annuals and works by international writers George Gordon Byron, William Cowper, Oliver Goldsmith and John Milton.

An advertisement listing just the annuals for sale appears in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser in May 1838.