Physical description

Hard cover book. The Victorian Government Gazette 1898 Vol 1/104
Printer: Robert Smith, Brain
Publisher: Robert Smith, Brain
Publisher: Authority of The Colonial Government
Date: 1898
Further Information: Textured hard cover bound book leather burgundy colour spine with gilt lettering, covers embossed blue cloth & reinforced corners to front and back cover.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Spine specifically marked with Courts, Warrnambool

Summary

The Victoria Government Gazette and other government documents from 1887 were printed and published by Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne. Brain held the position of Victorian Government Printer through the 1890s and into the early 1900s. The same imprint appears on other official Victorian publications from that era, such as the annual reports of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines and the colony's Statistical Register. There wasn't really an editor in the modern sense the Gazette was compiled and issued under the authority of the colonial government, via the Chief Secretary's Department, with Brain's printing office producing and publishing it.