ENGLISH AMERICA: OR PICTURES OF CANADIAN PLACES AND PEOPLE
1864 · London
by Day, Samuel Phillips
London: T. Cautley Newby, 1864. Two volumes. [2],ix,[1],323; vii,[1],333,[3]pp. Original green cloth, stamped in blind. Spines repaired and chipped, with some loss; corners bumped. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedowns, later ownership stamp on front flyleaves. Text block cracked but holding in second volume. About good. Scarce first edition. "The author's impressions of Canadian social institutions, politics and industrial development in 1862" - TPL With chapters on the Inter-Colonial Railway, various Native America tribes, and the impacts of emigration. TPL 4132. LANDE 1720. GAGNON I 1069. SABIN 18978. (Inventory #: WRCAM50933)