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1842 Canadian Scenery Vol I W.H. Bartlett N.P. Willis 1st Ed Engravings
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- Author
- N. P. Willis
- Publisher
- George Virtue
- Language
- English
- Topic
- Canadian Scenery
About this book
Canadian Scenery Illustrated
From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett
Literary department by N. P. Willis
George Virtue, London, 1842
First edition
Volume I only
Original gilt pictorial cloth hardcover
128 pages, if complete
No ISBN
An original 1842 first-edition volume from one of the major illustrated works on nineteenth-century Canada. W. H. Bartlett traveled through North America and supplied the drawings, which were turned into finely detailed steel engravings. N. P. Willis supplied the historical and travel text.
Volume I includes early views of Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, Niagara, Kingston, the St. Lawrence River, Indigenous villages and camps, monuments, bridges, forts, and Canadian wilderness scenes.
This copy retains the engraved “Wigwam in the Forest” title, the portrait frontispiece of W. H. Bartlett, and numerous full-page steel engravings. The words “Yours truly, W. H. Bartlett” beneath the portrait are a printed facsimile signature. This copy is not signed.