Name: Angus and Robertson
Time: 1886 - Current
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Category: Scholarly Publisher
Institution Category: Informing
Institution Group: Public Community Education
Coordinates: -27.4691116666667, 153.027638333333
Street Address: Angus and Robertson (Messr. Robertson), Brisbane City, TBA [General City Location]
Suburb: Brisbane City (CBD)
Sector: Commercial
Local Study Area: Spring Hill-CBD-Fortitude Valley-New Farm (Inner City)
Study Stage: MBNH Stage 9 Local Study Areas
The Company began as a partnership between David Angus and George Robertson in 1886, in Sydney. The trade with Queensland goes back to the days before a Brisbane branch existed, as large numbers of postal orders came from the state, in the absence of significant book printers (at the time Watson & Ferguson was emerging in Brisbane and the only reliable publisher among a host of minor ‘in-house’ publishers). The significance for the local book trade only took hold when Angus & Robertson led as Australia’s first nationwide chain of bookstores in the 1950s.
Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Brisbane River
Geographic Description 3: Flood Plains (Major); High River Banks (still floods); Ridgeline (Slopes off Wickham Tce)
Further research is underway.
VANCE PALMER “Legend for Sanderson,” by Vance Palmer. Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. The Telegraph, Saturday 21 August 1937, p. 15. NLA Trove
