ANDREW BENT:
A Bibliography of his Printing 1815-1849
Compiled by Sally Bloomfield
Citation: Sally Bloomfield, Andrew Bent: A Bibliography of his Printing, 1815-1849 https://andrew-bent.life/imprints/ (version 1, 31 August 2018)
Andrew Bent – master printer and industrious innovator
Bookbinding: Part 1 Part 2
Newspapers
1814: assisted with Van Diemen’s Land Gazette
1816-1830: Hobart Town Gazette Colonial Times Colonial Advocate
1832-1835: Colonist True Colonist People’s Horn Boy Trumpeter General
1836-1839: Bent’s News Horn Boy Port Philip Government Gazette (proposed)
1839-1840: Australasian Chronicle
Almanacs
These were sometimes published in December but are listed as the first item in their year of coverage.
Van Diemen’s Land Pocket Almanack: 1824
Tasmanian Almanack: 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830
Note on British Library holdings of Bent almanacs: In 1897 the British Museum acquired what appears to have been a full set from the collection of M.C. Scott. The volumes for 1825 to 1830, while still listed in the British Library’s catalogue, cannot currently be found. A note from the Keeper of Prints at the British Museum in 1959 (quoted by Clifford Craig in ‘Engravers of Van Diemen’s Land’) states that the Hobart Town annuals and almanacs of James Ross were destroyed during World War 2, so it is possible the Bent volumes shared the same fate.
[Sheet Almanack]: 1826
Hobart Town pamphlets and other printing
Miscellaneous government printing 1815-1820
1824 Books and pamphlets 1824 Miscellaneous printing
1826 Books and pamphlets 1826 Miscellaneous printing
1832-1833 1834 1835 1836-1838 1830s (undetermined)
ANDREW BENT: Father of the Free Press in Australia 