Author: BARRINGTON, GEORGE
Title: A Voyage to New South Wales, Comprising an Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts: The Progress of the Colony; an Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences, and Executions That Have Taken Place [.]
Description: New York, John Swain. 1801. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 184 pages. Front cover almost detached. Old names on endpapers. A Topographical, Physical, and Moral Account of the Country, Manners, Customs, &c. of the Natives. As likewise Authentic Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Characters, and Notorious Convicts that have been Transported to Botany Bay. By George Barrington, Principal Superintendant of the Convicts. To which is added His Life and Trial. 184 pages. Spine split on one side but front cover still attached, pages browned, old names and date 1810 on front endpaper. This edition is not dated on the title page. Ferguson (vol. I, 326) assumes that the publication date is the same as two Irish editions with the same title that were published in 1801. Good.

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