A Voyage to New South Wales,

Comprising An Interesting Narrative of the Transactions and Behaviour of the Convicts The Progress of the Convicts; An Official Register of the Crimes, Trials, Sentences, and Executions that have taken place; A Typographical, 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 Superintendent of the convicts. To which is annexed His Life and Trial. New York : Printed by John Swain, [1801]. Octavo, later half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, title-page with inscription of the original owner ‘Jeremiah Smith 1802’ struck out, and with the name of the next owner, American lawyer William Plumer, beneath, along with his library collection number ‘201’; pp. [4], 184; pages with typical amount of browning, else internally excellent; a fine copy.

Swain’s rare New York edition, drawing on both the 1795 Voyage and the 1800 Sequel, is the first American edition of the ‘complete’ Barrington, more than likely reprinted from the edition of both works published in London by Lowndes in 1801. The first American edition of the 1795 Voyage had been published in 1796 in Philadelphia by Thomas Dobson.

The attribution to Barrington is spurious, as is the case with numerous other works that were published under his name.

Ferguson, 327; Garvey, AB26