[SYDNEY] The prevalent forms and causes of Sabbath desecration.

Sydney : R. Howe, “Gazette” office, Lower George-street, [1841]. At head of title: Lecture III. Duodecimo, original plain blue wrappers, hand-sewn, 24 pp; a fine copy. Ferguson, 3244.

The third in the series Lectures on the Sabbath, which was also published, along with lectures by John Dunmore Lang, M.T. Adam, James Fullerton, and John Tait, in a collected volume in the same year titled Lectures on the Sabbath : occasioned by a recent discussion in the Legislative Council of New South Wales; and delivered in the Scots Church, Sydney, on Sabbath, July 18th 1841, and the four following Sabbaths, by ministers of the Presbyterian Church.

This separately issued version bears the imprint of Robert [Charles] Howe at the Sydney Gazette office (colophon, p.24). Robert Charles Howe was the son, by the convict Elizabeth Lees, of the printer and publisher of the Gazette, Robert Howe. He had been granted ownership of the Sydney Gazette in 1836, following the financial demise of its proprietor, his stepmother Ann Howe (the widow of Robert Howe, senior).

Only three copies are recorded in Australian collections (University of Sydney Library; Monash University Library; National Library of Australia).