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[Benjamin Isaacs, Printer, Publisher & Journalist 1796 - 1881],…
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13-Jun-2020
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[Benjamin Isaacs, Printer, Publisher & Journalist 1796 - 1881], 1867 - 1878 group of six different printed receipts signed by Isaacs on behalf of his Albion Printing Office at Windsor where, for a time, he had published 'The Windsor Advocate'. The receipts are mostly to the Richmond Road Trust for printing circulars, tenders for repairs, etc. (6 items). Born in London, Isaacs (son of Jacob & Esther Isaacs) arrived in Sydney in 1832 and worked as an overseer at Edward Smith-Hall's 'Monitor' and as a printer and publisher at Parramatta, intermittently, for about 13 years. During that period he returned to England (1836-38) and also spent some time in New Zealand where he conducted the 'Bay of Islands Advocate' from 1843-44. On his return to Sydney, Isaacs opened a printing business in Bent Street and in February 1848 founded the 'Bathurst Advocate'. In August 1852 he established the 'Goulburn Times'. The 'Bathurst Free Press' questioned whether the 'district of Goulburn contains a population sufficiently numerous..to maintain two newspapers..' and perceptively observed that time would solve the problem. It did, the 'Goulburn Times' died in infancy. Benjamin Isaacs left Bathurst through the inconvenience and losses caused by an action for libel brought against him by the Chief Constable. From Bathurst, he went to Windsor, where he lived for more than 20 years and where he started a weekly paper known as 'The Windsor Advocate.' The paper failed, however, but Mr. Isaacs continued in business as a job printer, the receipts offered here being rare remnants of that business. Isaacs married three times, all his wives were named Elizabeth.
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