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Valuable Books, Just Imported by James Tegg,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for books for sale by James Tegg. The advertisement fills columns of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser and lists the works for sale in alphabetical order. Books include novels, 'Cooper, Miss Porter, Miss Austin [Jane Austen?], Goodwin, Mrs Shelley ; and some by Bulwer, Theodore Hook, Morier, James, and other celebrated Writers', poetry, extracts and essays, plays, biography, works for children and young people, dictionaries, spelling and grammar, songs, and non-fiction including history, theology, science and domestic science. Tegg also advertises his own publications in the list.
The 'Sydney General Trade List' published in the Gazette of 8 November 1838 (4) included ‘4 cases books, J. Tegg’ as imports on 31 October via the Marian Watson.
- Now Publishing a Second Edition of Tegg's Commercial Almanac for 1839, single work advertisement (p. 3)
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The Late Joe Grimaldi,
Charles Dickens
(editor),
extract
autobiography
(p. 4)This extract is from the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi edited by 'Boz' (Charles Dickens). Memoirs was first published in two volumes in London by Richard Bentley in February 1838.
- Evening Sale of Books, single work advertisement (p. 4)
