Author: DUNSTAN, DAVID.
Title: Victorian Icon. The Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Description: First Limited leather Bound Edition; Med. 4to; pp. xv, 520; illustrated endpapers; 51 colour plates; profusely illustrated; appendix; index, full leather binding with suede spine, title lettered in gilt on spine, signed by the author, bookplate of James G. Stewart on front endpaper, fine copy. together with an associated first day. Melbourne, The Exhibition Trustees, (1996). Limited leather-bound edition, of 250 numbered copies, this being copy number 64. Specially constructed in the Carlton Gardens for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880-81, the Royal Exhibition Building is a grand expression of Victorian style and optimism. For many years it was the largest building in Australia, attracting spectacular events like the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 and the Opening of Federal Parliament in 1901.

Keywords: Australian Melbourne Victoria local history royal exhibition building city Australia