Author: MITCHEL, JOHN (1815-1875)
Title: Jail journal : with an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland
Description: Dublin : M. H. Gill 1921. Fourth Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Scattered foxing to prelims. & endpapers. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight. bright. clean and strong. by John Mitchell. Physical description: xlvii. 463 p. [24] leaves of plates : ill. ports. fasc. ; 23 cm. Notes: Preface signed: Arthur Griffith. 'Commenced on board the 'Shearwater' steamer. in Dublin Bay. continued at Spike Island-on board the 'Scourge' war steamer-on board the 'Dromedary' hulk-Bermuda-on board the 'Neptune' convict ship-at Pernambuco-at the Cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion)-at Van Diemen's land-at Sydney-at Tahiti-at San Francisco-at Greytown- and concluding at no. 3 pier. North River. New York' -t.p. 'Original ed. with a continuation of the journal in New York and Paris. a preface. appendices. and illustrations' -t.p. 'The present edition is reprinted from 'The Citizen' - Mitchel's first New York newspaper - in which the 'Jail journal' was originally published. from January 14th. 1854. to August 19th. 1854'. 'By John Mitchel; Prisoner in the Hands of the English' -t.p. Subject: Prisons - Great Britain. Ireland - Politics and government - 19th century. Tasmania - Description and travel. Other names: Griffith. Arthur 1872-1922. Genre: Autobiography. Weight in Kg appr.:

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