THE FIRST FLEET. The Record of the Foundation of Australia from its Conception to the Settlement at Sydney Cove. Compiled from the Original documents in the Public Record Office with extracts from the Log-Books of H.M.S. Sirius.

AUSTRALIANA MARITIME ANTIQUARIAN –

A very desirable and scarce book.

Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK4337

First Edition. Number #163 of Limited Edition of 375.

150, [1] pp. Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter. Foreword by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens (Premier of New South Wales). Illustrated with 5 wood engravings by Peter Barker-Mill; plus several full-page facsimiles. 31.5×19 cm. (12½x7½”), blue cloth, gilt-stamped motif over tan cloth background on the front cover, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. No. 163 of 375 copies printed on Arnold’s hand-made paper by Christopher and Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press.

• “Some of this material is now printed for the first time ; the more important documents appear in the Historical records of New South Wales, published in Sydney in 1892.”–p. 20.
• “The First Fleet has been printed & published by Christopher and Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press of 10 Staple Inn, London, and completed on the 24th day of August, 1937. The edition is limited to 375 copies printed on Arnold’s hand-made paper in Perpetua type” — Colophon.
• Includes despatches from Arthur Phillip and proposals from James M. Matra for establishing a settlement in New South Wales.

• • 149, [1] p., 4 p. of plates : ill. ; 32 cm. #180825

  • • Convict ships
    • First Fleet, 1787-1788
    • Australia — History — To 1788 — Sources

    Other authors/contributors:

    • Matra, James Mario, 1748?-1806
    • Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814
    • Rutter, Owen, 1889-1944
    • Sandford, Anthony
    • Sandford, Christopher
    • Barker-Mill, Peter
    • Golden Cockerel Press

    “Pertelote 123” refers to a book published by the Golden Cockerel Press, specifically “The First Fleet: The Record of the Foundation of Australia from its Conception to the Settlement at Sydney Cove“. It was published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Australia. The book is described as being “published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Foundation of Australia, as a salute from England to the Commonwealth”.