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Notice : Tobias Twickenham single work   advertisement  
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 Notice : Tobias Twickenham
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A notice advertising for subscribers for a new work to be entitled 'The Life and Adventures and Public and Private Career of Tobias Twickenham, Esq.' The work was to published in 24 parts 'each number to contain sixteen pages similar in size to those of the Pickwick Papers'. Subscription lists were open at 'Mr Tegg's [James Tegg], George-street, Mr Moffitt's [William Moffitt] Pitt-street, and the Australian Office, Hunter-street ... Price 1s each Number'. The first number was intended to be published on the 1 November 1838.

The advertisement seemingly jests that it is inserted by Boz (Charles Dickens) and advises that the work is by 'his nephew'.

At least two parts of this work, entitled A Faithful History of the Life and Adventures, and Public and Private Career of Tobias Twickenham Esquire by 'Boz Jun', were published by James Tegg in November and December 1838.

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    y separately published work icon The Australian vol. 5 no. 547 6 October 1838 7593802 1838 newspaper issue 1838 pg. 3
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Australian Pickwick 1838 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 9 October vol. 36 no. 4081 1838; (p. 2)

Paragraph about the intention of a 'young man, author of several productions which have issued from the Colonial press' to publish a series 'after the style of Boz' through subscription. The work was to be entitled "The Peregrinations of Tobias Twichenham, Esq. [sic]".

The 13 November 1838 issue of the Sydney Gazette acknowledges 'the receipt of the first number of a work styled:- A Faithful History of the Life and Adventures, and Public and Private Career of Tobias Twickenham Esquire,... edited by Boz Jun ...' (2)
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