xii, 466 pp. (8vo) 21.5x13 cm (8½x5¼") period full calf. spine gilt. First Edition.

Wentworth, was and chief founder of the system of colonial self-government. He was born on Norfolk Island, then a penal dependency of New South Wales, where his father was government surgeon. His enthusiastic and glowing description of the colony, which he argued was far superior to the United States as a field of settlement, played a major role in attracting many new free emigrants.