Physical description

Hard cover book, New Victorian Counties Atlas
Author: F.E. Hiscocks and Co,
Publisher: George Robertson, Melbourne Vic.
Date: 1874
Morocco Olive hardcover with a damaged black spine, reinforced corners to hardcover gold edging to where spine meets hardcover. Title in a lozenge on front cover edged with a decorative panel.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Front loose end paper has the name Emanuel Wilde, Hawkesdale written in hand writing

Summary

Published in Melbourne in 1874 by the prominent bookseller and publisher George Robertson, F.E. Hiscocks & Co.’s New Victorian Counties Atlas is a monumental 19th-century cartographic and statistical record of the colony of Victoria. While George Robertson was the publisher responsible for production, marketing, and distribution, the detailed compiling and surveying were executed by F.E. Hiscocks & Co., with the striking colour lithography handled by the renowned Melbourne firm Hamel & Ferguson.