Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — A Bookseller's Lowly Beginning. [ARTICLE]

A Bookseller's Lowly Beginning.

George Robertson, the head of the book-selling trade in Australia, left personal estate valued at £117,000. According to local tradition, Mr. Robertson began business with a barrowful of books on the Queen’s Wharf, Melbourne, in 1852. The above figures represent the head establishment In Melbourne alone; the value of the branches In London, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane has yet to be estimated. The eldest son of the deceased, Charles Melbourne Robertson, is now the managing director of the business—Manchester Guardian.