Title: Guide to Port Arthur.

Author: D. Martyn.

Publisher and imprint: Undated souvenir guide credited on the rear to D. Martyn, Galleon, Port Arthur, with printer's code "MERCURY 69-725" and the note "Copyright applied for."

Format: Vintage illustrated chapbook / pamphlet with light blue printed card covers and staple binding.

Genre and topic: History and travel focused on Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australian penal colony heritage, and the surrounding historic site.

Subject: Concise narrative guide to the former penal settlement at Port Arthur covering its establishment in 1830, closure in 1877, the auctioning of buildings, and subsequent changes to the settlement.

Contents: Sections describe the Church and its architect James Blackburn, the surrounding township and waterfront, the Model Prison and its regime of solitary confinement, the lunatic asylum, and everyday life and discipline within the settlement.

Further contents: Includes accounts of the Isle of the Dead burial ground, Point Puer boys' reformatory, Suicide Cliff, and the main penitentiary buildings, workshops, and convicts' quarters, leading to a concluding reflection on the penal system and changing social attitudes.

Illustrations and design: Front cover features a black line drawing of marching convicts and guards above the title "Guide to Port Arthur"; interior pages are printed in clear black text on tinted blue paper stock.

Narrative type: Nonfiction historical and site guide intended to accompany visitors as they walk through the Port Arthur ruins and surviving structures.

Language and audience: English-language publication aimed at adult readers, tourists, and students interested in Australian history, Tasmanian heritage, and penal colonies.

Country of origin: Australia; produced for the Port Arthur historic site in Tasmania.

Special notes: Vintage stapled souvenir guide to Port Arthur by D. Martyn summarizing the history, buildings, and convict experience of the Tasmanian penal settlement; see photos and condition notes for details of this specific copy.