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Author Mudie, James.

Title The felonry of New South Wales : being a faithful picture of the real romance of life in Botany Bay, with anecdotes of Botany Bay society and a plan of Sydney / by James Mudie
Published London : Printed for the author by Whaley and co., 1837

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 ADPML SPC  994.02 Mud 1837  LIB USE ONLY
Description viii, 362 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 24 cm
Series Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK1760. ANL
Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK81. ANL
Notes A rare form includes printed slips pasted around Mudie's text at pp. 239-241
All eight of the National Library of Australia's copies include pp. 239-241. ANL
National Library of Australia's FRM F2312 (FC - red) copy half bound in red with marbled boards and end papers, five raised bands and all gilt edges; bears the ex-libris book label of Jonathan E. Backhouse (August, 1893); Angus & Robertson (Sydney) bookseller's labed pasted inside front cover; press clippings from 20/8/1908, 14 /2/11 and 9/7/1925 pasted in. ANL
National Library of Australia's FRM F2312 (FC2) copy is the rare form containing the pasted in changes on pp. 239-241; includes another copy of the printed insertions of p. 239 as a leaf (complete), p. 240 as a cut (lower margin), p. 241 as 2 cuts (left, lower margins), leaves 240-241 are therefore incomplete; press clipping from The Bulletin, 20/8/1908 pasted in; also inscribed "T. Walker, Rhodes, Tasmania 1849" and "A.E. Walker, Rhodes opposite or near Ryde "Concord" N.S. Wales". ANL
National Library of Australia's FRM F2312 (N) copy bound in green cloth and inscribed Thos. Hector; untrimmed. ANL
National Library of Australia's FRM F2312 (N) copy half bound with marbled end papers; stamped Commonwealth of Australia, Library of the Parliament 15 Jun 1903, 1056; Angus, Robertson & Shenstone (Melbourne) bookseller's label pased inside front cover. ANL
National Library of Australia's FRM F2312 (Petherick) copy bound in green cloth and uncut. ANL
National Library of Australia's NK1760 copy bound in green cloth and in green case; bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1837/10). ANL
National Library of Australia's NK81 copy in custom blue leather and cloth box with five raised bands bearing the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1837/1); volume has clipping from the Bulletin 29/9/1921 and bookeller's description pasted inside front cover - "The Blackland [sic] family who are maligned on pp. 239-241 secured all possible copies and cancelled these pages. They are however present in this copy, and in the margins are pasted printed slips defending the character of John Blackland [sic] against the author's assertions."; 1869 stamp of the New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney; emboss indicates sold by authority of the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales. ANL
P. 218, 246, 272, 273, 301-2 are wrongly numbered 128, 46, 72, 27, 293-4 respectively; p. 303-24 were never published
Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections Wald copy from the collection of Dr. Louis Wald. NU
Subject Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855.
Prisoners -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Ex-convicts -- Australia -- New South Wales.
SUBJECT New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1788-1851
Author Backhouse, Jonathan Edmund, Sir, 1849-1918, former owner
Walker, Anna Elizabeth, 1804-1889, former owner ANL
Walker, Thomas, 1791-1861, former owner ANL