Melbourne advertiser, Port Phillip, Vol. 1, no. 2, 8 January 1838, printed facsimile of a manuscript

DLMSQ 596

fonds

1838, facsimile printed at unknown date

947162

1 folder of textual material (4 p.) - printed facsimile of a manuscript - 36 cm.

The Melbourne Advertiser, published by John Pascoe Fawkner, was the first newspaper published in Melbourne. Its first nine numbers were issued in manuscript

A printed facsimile 'Re-published by the Proprietor Peter C. Alcock', Melbourne, no date

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

An original manuscript copy is held in the Mitchell Library at A 1743. Other copies of the Alcock facsimile are held at A 3866, B 1584, and Q328/Pa 1. A printed facsimile published by W. H. Simpson of Wellington, New Zealand, is held at Q079/27. The Alcock and Simpson facsimiles have been made from different originals and neither has been made from the original at A 1743. A handwritten copy made by Rudolph Herman Bieske, ca. 1883, is held at A 3866 and another handwritten copy by an unknown writer, bearing a 1867 watermark, is held at A 857