Historical information

These readers used in Victorian Schools - one for each grade -were first published by the Victorian Education Department between 1928 and 1930. Second editions of all but the First book, with a few changes in content, occurred about 10 years later. From the 1950s, new Departmental publications gradually replaced the old books with the exception of the Fifth and Sixth Books, which continued until the late 1960s

Significance

Students at Victorian primary schools used these readers. Their choice of content reflects concerns, preferences and issues of the time.

Physical description

Reasonable condition