Numbers 1 - 18 as follows:
Nos 1-3 24 pages in facsimile.
Nos 4-8 42 pages (including 2 page Supplement) original.
No. 9 8 pages in facsimile.
No. 10 8 pages, original
No. 11 4 pages in facsimile, 4 pages original
Nos 12-17 54 pages (incl. 6 pages of Supplements) original
No. 18 4 pages (incl. 2 page Supplement) in facsimile and 6 pages original.
Facts connected with the stopping of the South African Commercial Advertiser, 4 pages in facsimile.
Together 44 pages in facsimile and 114 original pages (in remarkably good condition) bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in boards with morocco back; morocco label ‘Greig’s Advertiser’ from original binding laid down on inside front cover, and two receipts made out to John Fairbairn (1825 and 1828) laid down on inside back cover.
Copies of these first 18 numbers of the S.A. Commercial Advertiser (only 18 were issued before Lord Charles Somerset suspended it) are rare.
ESAT: The Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/The_South_African_Commercial_Advertiser)
The South African Commercial Advertiser was South Africa's first independent English-language newspaper.
Founded in Cape Town and edited by Thomas Pringle and John Fairbairn, printed by George Greig.
The first issue appeared on 7 January 1824 and it was to become a valuable source on 19th century Cape Town politics, life and culture, also publishing regular theatre reviews and advertisements for theatre productions, invaluable sources for theatre historians.
The newspaper twice banned by order of the Governor at the Cape, Lord Charles Somerset (5 May 1824 to 31 August 1825, and 10 March 1827 to 3 October 1828), but continued under the editorship of Fairbairn.
- Size: 4to (280 x 220 mm)
