Author: HAYTER, HENRY HEYLYN. (Government Statistician).
Title: Illustrated Handbook Of Victoria, Together with the Official Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court. New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, Dunedin, 1889-90.
Description: Presentation Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. viii, 101, 28 (pages of engravings); two frontispiece maps of Victoria one showing school locations, the other geographical locations, 16 full page engravings, 12 large folding engravings up to 500 x 235 mm. in size, these include panoramas of Ballarat, Sandhurst, and Melbourne, The Victorian Navy (showing five ships), Victorian Railway Station Spencer Street, Prince's Bridge, Eastern Market, etc., numerous tables of information on prices, and wages, the last 60 pages being a Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court of the 1889-90 New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition. half leather binding with marbled boards and marbled endpapers, gilt blind stamped decoration to edges of leather on front and back boards, all page edges marbled, title lettered in gilt on spine, inscription of front endpaper from G. D. Langridge Presidenrt of the Royal Commission of Victoria, some minor foxing overall a very good copy. Melbourne: By Authority : Robt. S, Brain, Government Printer, 1889. The first part of this book is a most unusually variant of Hayter's 2nd edition (1885, Ferguson 10322) the text has been reset in the larger 4to page format, and the beautiful engravings have been added, the 12 folding engravings on their own would more than justify the price.

Keywords: Victorian Local History