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La Trobe Library Journal
No. 59 Autumn 1997 (Issued July 1997)
Published By The Friends of the La Trobe Library

The Victorian Book Trade

Editor — Wallace Kirsop
Assistant Editor — Sandra Burt

Contents

1 From boom to bust in the “Chicago of the south”: the 19th-century Melbourne book trade Wallace Kirsop 1
2 Sources for the History of the Book located in the State Library of Victoria Stephen Herrin 15
3 Leonard Slade, bookseller John Holroyd 27
4 Obituary: Mrs E. M. Borrow Dianne Reilly 28
Front cover illustration: Portrait of Leonard Slade by Sybil Craig 1934. Pastel on buff paper. (H82–85, LT 1020. La Trobe Picture Collection. State Library of Victoria).
ISSN 0041-3151

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