is published by the State Library of Victoria Foundation twice yearly in Autumn and Spring. Formerly the La Trobe Library Journal, it was published from 1968 to 1997 by the Friends of the State Library (now amalgamated with the State Library of Victoria Foundation).

Editorial Committee: John Barnes (editor), Sandra Burt (assistant to editor), John Arnold, Morton Browne, Shane Carmody, Anne Colman, Des Cowley, Yvonne Hurley, Wallace Kirsop. Administrative assistant: Joanne Halpin.

Editorial address: Editor, The La Trobe Journal, State Library of Victoria Foundation, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000. E-mail: [email protected]

Contributions are invited on scholarly topics and are subject to refereeing.

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All photographs in this number of The La Trobe Journal are from the State Library of Victoria, unless stated otherwise. Library photography is by the Photographic Unit of the State Library.

Front cover: Melbourne, SLV, Book of Hours (096 R66 HV), fol.d⁴ Augustus and the Tiburtine sibyl, illustration prefacing the Hours of the Conception of the Virgin. See article by Hilary Maddocks in this issue.

Back cover: Page from Psalter-Hours, Liége, c. 1270. RARES 096 R66. Rare Books Collection, State Library of Victoria. Purchased by the Felton Bequest in 1937 along with William Caxton's Myrrour of the World. See Shane Carmody's article in this issue.