Letter from the Australian Patriotic Association to C. Buller, Jun., Esq., MP. In support of the petition of the colonists of New South Wales, for the continuance of transportation of convicts to the colony, and of their assignment of private service. May 31, 1839 – Revised March 1843

[BLAND, William]

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Publisher: Sydney, printed by Daniel Lovett Welsh, 1843. First edition
Description: pp66. 8vo, bound, without wrappers, in modern leather, gilt lettering on spine. There is a crease down the centre of the pages (presumabley the pamphlet was folded before binding). Some scattered foxing, else very good

The Mackaness copy, with bookplate. The Australian Patriotic Association was formed in 1835, for the purpose of petitioning for representative government in the Colony. Bland wrote letters to various people of influence, in this case the English member of parliament and reformer Charles Buller. Ferguson 3554

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