247 pages, facsimile edition, first thus. The pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. 'Town Life in Australia' was first published London, Elliot Stock, 1883. Published in a facsimile ed. by Penguin Books, 1973. "This book gives the reader a window on every day city life in the Australian colonies in the early 1880s. Written by a newspaper editor.... Written as a series of letters, each chapter is on a separate topic allowing the reader to pick up and put down the book without losing the thread of the writing." (Stumbling Through The P ast)