Collins: The story of Australia’s premier street
Arcadia, $89.95 hb, 270 pp, 1740970578
Go! Melbourne: Melbourne in the sixties
Circa Press, $34.95 pb, 306 pp, 0975780204
Melbourne’s fashions
Two new books with Melbourne as their subject couldn’t be more disparate in size, form, content and accuracy. Collins: The Story of Australia’s Premier Street is a big, well-designed book. It has a mysterious provenance and more than a smattering of inaccuracies: but it has pictures. These are mostly from the State Library of Victoria, and even those dating from the early years of outside photography provide clear details of the buildings and people of the time. They will enchant even those who dare think that our premier street is not so very different from the main streets of Manchester or Madison.
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