Howe Robert 1795 1829 (2 results)

[Further issues have title: Howe's weekly commercial express and miscellaneous intelligencer. Sydney : Printed by the Proprietor, by R. Howe, 1825. Folio newspaper, [4] pp, engraved masthead with Advance Australia and the motto "Industry is the mother, the nurse, and the guardian of all virtues"; text in four columns; horizontal and vertical repairs to each side, with small loss of text in a number of places; lower outer corner of [3-4] with more substantial loss; each side with some re-margining; scattered staining and spotting; housed in a handsome archival portfolio of half calf over patterned cloth boards with gilt lettered leather title label to front. Ferguson, 1026. Howe's weekly commercial expresswas Australia's first commercial newspaper. It was an extremely shortlived publication, in circulation in Sydney for only six months between May 2 and September 26 1825. The second issue contains shipping intelligence; public notices; advertisements for Sydney businesses, ranging from wine and spirits merchants to livestock dealers, jewellers, stationers and importers of musical instruments; employment notices; sales by auction; court and law reports; a literary column; letters to the editor; local news, and an article on the explorer Mungo Park. A member of Australia's most important early publishing dynasty, Robert Howe was the son of George Howe, who had printed the first book in Australia in 1802 (The New South Wales General Standing Orders) and Australia's first newspaper in 1803 (theSydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser). Following his father's death,Robert became editor of the Gazette, which he had formerly helped his father to publish. Aside from the Commercial Express, whose motto reflects Howe's strong Methodist beliefs, Howe was also responsible for a small number of religious publications in the 1820s, as well as the landmark first book of poems written by a colonial-born poet, Charles Tompson'sWild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel(1826). Even individual issues of the elusiveHowe's weekly commercial expressare seldom offered for sale and are considered extremely rare. Complete runs are held in the collections of the State Library of New South Wales and the State Library of Victoria; the National Library of Australia holds a substanially complete run, lacking only no. 3. Ferguson 1026 "An excessively rare periodical". …

Sydney : Printed by Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1821. Volume 1, Number 1, May 1 1821, to Volume 1, Number 8, December 1, 1821 (i.e. the first eight issues).Octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary half calf over pink papered boards (heavily rubbed, with some surface loss), spine with contrasting red morocco title label lettered in gilt (expertly rebacked); pp. i-8 (including title-leaf with early ownership signature, Preface and Index), 1-256; edges with light spotting, contents clean and sound throughout, with the exception of pages 94-95 which have tearing and paper restoration (with a small amount of resultant text loss); a near-fine complete run of the first year's issues in a contemporary binding, with the specially printed title-leaf and other preliminaries bound in; housed in a custom cloth and leather slipcase. A historically significant bound volume containing the first eight issues (May to December 1821) of Australia's first periodical, The Australian Magazine.Thisshortlived publication, edited by Ralph Mansfield and printed by Robert Howe, went out of circulation in September 1822 after only fourteen issues. As the son of George Howe (1769-1821), who had printed the first book in Australia in 1802 (The New South Wales General Standing Orders) and Australia's first newspaper in 1803 (the first issue of theSydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser), Robert Howe (1795-1829) was a memberof Australia's most important early publishing dynasty. The first issue of The Australian Magazine- printed by Robert Howe -was published on 1 May 1821, a mere 10 days before George Howe's death on 11 May. Having already succeeded his father as Government Printer, Robert also became editor, printer and publisher of the Gazette, which he had formerly helped his father to publish. 'Robert Howe was dissipated as a young man and in 1819 fathered an illegitimate son. Next year, however, he experienced a spiritual awakening and, in his own words, was "wonderfully and mercifully visited by God and snatched from infamy in this world and Hell in the next". He joined the group of Methodists who were working in Sydney and their influence, particularly that of Rev.Ralph Mansfield, was apparent when he publishedThe Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence, the first periodical to appear in Australia. The first number appeared in May 1821 and the publication continued until September 1822.' (ADB) The Australian Magazine was edited by Reverend Ralph Mansfield (1799-1880), a recently ordained but zealous Methodist minister who had arrived in Sydney from Liverpool, England, in September 1820. From Mansfield's editorial Preface, dated December 1 1821, bound in at the front of the present volume: 'Our design, from the first, has avowedly been, "to disseminate useful knowledge, religious principles, and moral habits." And though some, we are aware, object to our Magazine, that it wears too grave and religious an aspect, candour must compel them to acknowledge, that we have not swerved from the intentions we distinctly proposed. Political discussion, and party spirit, and personal allusion, we have scrupulously avoided. Literature and science, while we have devoted to them a portion of attention, have been kept subordinate and subservient to our primary design. Of Colonial occurrences we have endeavoured to select the most interesting; though this department is, in a great measure, superseded by the weekly Journal [i.e. the Sydney Gazette].' Ferguson, 804 Very rare. Rare Book Hub locates no individual issues or runs ofThe Australian Magazinein its auction records which go back well over a century. Trove locates only the complete runs in the NLA and SLNSW: both libraries hold nos. 1-8 (Volume 1, complete), and nos. 9-14 (Volume 2, all issued).…