Author: CANNON, MICHAEL; Editor.
Title: The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil 1880.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Elephant Folio: pp. 214, (viii); No. 89.- Vol. VII to No. 113. - Voll VIII; with a seven page index, numerous illustrations many being double page in size, original navy cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, with its original illustrated slip case, cloth and slip case a little worn otherwise a very good copy. Scarce Melbourne; Heritage Publications; 1970. This period of issues is of great importance, they include all the issues covering Ned Kelly's arrest and trial, along with a wealth of material giving a panorama of colonial life in the 1880's, Melbourne International Exhibition,train smashes, shipwrecks, railways, travel, gold mining, town life, churches, etc.

Keywords: Australian bushranging local history railways gold victoria Ned Kelly