Author E.W. Cole was Australia's first bookseller, building his
bookshop, the Cole's Book Arcade, in Bourke Street Melbourne into
Australia's most loved and renown bookshop for over fifty years. A
riotous and incredible retail experience with tea salons, live
animals, a speakers corner as well as jugglers and buskers, E.W.
Cole created a book selling experience like no other. A true
eccentric (like many booksellers today...), E.W. Cole was a one man
publicity machine, writing columns in the paper, a staunch
adversary of the White Australia Policy and even advertising in the
Melbourne Herald for a wife in 1875: "I require a woman chaste,
sober, honest, truthful, intelligent, industrious, frugal, cleanly,
neat, not dressy, good-tempered, moderately educated and a lover of
home." Leaving a legacy of several best-selling and varied
publications, his most famous was the Coles Little Funny Picture
Book. A 'family' book filled with parlour games, puzzles, riddles,
illustrations and games, it took Australia by storm and sold
thousands of copies. This new edition of the Australian classic
contains selective facsimile samples from the original books of
humorous rhymes and poems, puzzles, stories, songs and cartoons,
optical illusions, illustrations of crazy inventions and machines
and much more. Chapters include Dolly Land, Girl Land, Boy Land,
Play Land, Drawing Land, Monkey Land, Froggy Land, Piggy Land,
Temper Land, Stealing Land and Laziness land. A true Australian
character and our most original and beloved bookseller and author,
with Cole's Funny Little Picture Book E.W. Cole created a unique
slice of Australian life which went on to delight and enchant
generations of Australian children and adults alike..
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