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ANDERSON, HUGH. - Farewell To Judges & Juries: The broadside ballad and convict transportation to Australia, 1788-1868.

Title: Farewell To Judges & Juries: The broadside ballad and convict transportation to Australia, 1788-1868.
Description: First Edition; 4to; pp. xxxiv, 611; illustrated throughout; First Line & Title Index, Name Index & Printers, Bibliography, Notes & Sources; stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. (Hotham Hill, Victoria), Red Rooster Press, 2000. Printed in a small run of only 400 copies, this important work is the first detailed collection of the ballads of convict transportation to be made, and includes approximately 140 broadside ballads and songs, many with tunes, The remainder of the book is made up of an extensive name Index, Index of Titles and First Lines, a Bibliography of works on both transportation and broadsides, and notes on the Sources. The work is an essential reference work for early Australian literature and complements Ferguson.

Keywords: Australian convict ballads songs broadsides boo

Price: AUD 125.00 = appr. US$ 86.48 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 94073