Review

Edward William Cole and his Coles Book Arcade: a remarkable advocate for education and reading

By Colin Steele
April 3 2021 - 12:00am
Cole in his study at the Book Arcade on Bourke Street at the turn of the century. Picture: Coles Album, Henry Williams, State library of Victoria
Cole in his study at the Book Arcade on Bourke Street at the turn of the century. Picture: Coles Album, Henry Williams, State library of Victoria

Two books, one non-fiction and one fiction, celebrate Edward William Cole (1832-1918), remembered for the remarkable three-storey Cole's Book Arcade, which opened in Melbourne in 1883 at 299 Bourke Street.

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