Title:
Middleton & Maning's Tasmanian directory & gazetteer ...
Publication:
[Hobart?] : Alec Middleton and Francis Beresford Maning, [1886]-1887?
Manufacture:
Sydney : Gornall, Printer, "Times" Office
Physical description:
2 volumes? (1887: xvi, 460 pages, 6 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Numbering:
Began with: [1st, 1886]; ceased with 1887?
Binding:
Copy quarter-bound in dark brown leather and green cloth boards; title and library call number added to spine in gilt lettering. Item ID 146022017
Format:
magazine/journal
Source note:
Description based on: 1887; title from title-page.
Notes:
"Containing a gazetteer of Tasmania, alphabetical, street, trade & professional, government, official, medical, legal, miscellaneous co.'s & municipal directories, together with a vast amount of general and useful information"--Title page, 1887.
"Second year of publication"--1887.
Multiple pages of advertisements appear as front and back matter.
Indexed in:
Ferguson, no. 12572.
Contents:
Gazetteer -- Directories -- Index to advertisements.
Summary:
1887 volume is divided into several main sections: Gazetteer, with information on: telegraphs, postal, customs, shipping, statistics, "Towns in Tasmania" (including details of over 70 towns), railways, tourists' guide, a retrospect for 1886, and more. Directories: Hobart street, alphabetical and trade & professional directories; Sandy Bay by street and alphabetical; Launceston street, alphabetical and trades directories; directories of 30 districts and municipalities throughout Tasmania; country trades directory; Government and official directory; ecclesiastical and educational directory;miscellaneous companies' directory; and legal; medical; and municipal directories.
Condition:
Condition review 2017. Copy has contents page detached, and top corner torn from last page. Item ID 146022017
Continues:
Subjects:
Record ID:
SD_ILS:553760
Electronic resources:
View 1887 volume online