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William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne - first edition ISBN:0855610271, 1971. hardcover, 6½" x 9¾", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket. During 1819 - 1821 Commissuioner Bigge was sent to Australia to conduct inquiries about its laws, administration, convict reform, and the state of civil, judicial and ecclesiastical establishments, and to report back to the British Parkliament. His material came in two forms: Formal Interviews (see Volume One of this title), and Private Letters (from which the material in this present volume were selected). Here we learn early Australian history from those who lived and made it.