324 pages. This is an ex library copy. The damage is limited to the preliminaries and a library stamp on the head of page 5, else it remains a clean and solid copy which appears to have been rarely borrowed. This volume compiles the birth, marriage and death notices published in the Bendigo Advertiser between 1854 and 1880. Includes some black and white photographs. Index (by surname). First edition of 500 copies. There is a volume 2 (1881-1895) and a volume 3 1896-1910.