Author: ARCHER, WILLIAM HENRY.
Title: Facts and Figures: or Notes of Progress, Statistical and General.
Description: Limited Facsimile Edition; 4to; pp. xiv, 98; tipped in portrait frontispiece, index and errata located at front; original beige cloth with brown spine, title lettered in brown on spine, corners lightly bumped, minor marks to cloth, otherwise a very good copy. (Melbourne), Queensberry Hill Press, 1977. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Facts and Figures was registered as a newspaper in May 1857. Issued, initially, in monthly parts, it ceased publication in 1858 when the last issue appeared in November. All told only eleven issues appeared, including a Subscriber's list which was the eighth issue. The issues contained much material relative to early Victoria and its settlement each issue being of eight pages in double colomns. The list of subscribers contains 718 names many prominent in the early history of Melbourne and Port Phillip.

Keywords: Australian local history Victoria