Physical description

A badly damaged grey fabric covered hardcover Victorian reader, Fourth Book.The front cover has the title with Education department Victoria and a crest inside a black circle at the top. Second Edition is printed at the bottom. The spine has broken away from the cover. There are ink and pencil markings throughout. There are poems, short stories, play scripts, black and white illustrations and Notes and Exercises at the back. 181Pp.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

There are ink and pencil markings throughout. The back of the front end papers has an arithmetic 'Pence Table' written in blue ink.

Summary

The Victorian Readers were a series of school readers (eight in number) produced between 1928 and 1930 for school children in Victoria and used (with revisions) until the 1950s. This is a second edition of The Victorian Readers Fourth Book published by the Education Department of Victoria.