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[Toronto]: Peter Martin Associates Limited, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (imperial). Facsimile edition. Quarter blue cloth, brown cloth boards. 128 pp.,[54 plate engravings]; 116 pp.,[63] plate engravings. Spines sunned and rubbed. In custom paper-bound slipcase. Slipcase is worn and sunned.

George Virtue, 1842. Hardcover. Good. . Two volumes. 3/4 green leather with marbled boards, marbled endpapers and textblock. Slight shelf wear. Rubbing, some chipping to leather spines, still look nice on a shelf overall. Light foxing throughout, most pages clean, still very readable. Bindings sturdy. Protected in removable archival plastic sleeves.

London: James Virtue, no date (1840's. spines worn top and bottom, covers wearing, hinges cracked . Barlett. London: spines worn top and bottom, covers wearing, hinges cracked no date (1840's all edges giltsome discoloration on margin of plates

Engraved frontis portrait, engraved title pages, map & 117 steel engraved plates. The plates are good early strikes with little or no foxing William Henry Bartlett, 1809-1854, a noted traveller and highly skilled landscape artist, visited Canada four times between 1836 and 1852. He provided some twenty travelogues with brief texts. The prose text by Willis relates the history and current conditions in Upper and Lower Canada about 1839-40". - Canadian Scenery is considered Bartlett's finest production (Sabin). - "A very deep impression upon the pictorial history of Canada was made by William Henry Bartlett, artist and illustrator". Spendlove.

London. Virtue & Co., City Road and Ivy Road. [1842]. 4to., 26.2cm, in 2 volumes, [iv],128 & [ii],116pp., plus engraved illustrated title pages, engraved map & 117 steel engraved plate illustrations, in the original half dark blue calf, gilt decorated raised bands, crushed crimson and black morocco labels, gilt titles, matched blue green marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, some slight wear on the binding edges, a very good to fine set attractively bound. Seven plates have some foxing, otherwise they are clean, clear and bright. Notable for the high degree of contrast found in nineteenth century steel engravings - sets free of foxing have become somewhat difficult to find.(cgc). Note: The steel engraved plates were done in 1840-1841 and were still in use as late as 1884. William Withrow's A Popular History of the Dominion of Canada... 2 volumes 1884, had twenty-four Bartlett engraved plates. Given the title page imprint this issue was probably about 1855. There is talk that late plate wear… Read More

London: James S. Virtue, 1842. 1st Edition. Cloth. Good. BARTLETT, William Henry. 2 vols.: Vol. 1: [5], 128 p.Vol. II: [4], 116 p. 28.5 cm. Violet cloth binding with gold and blind impressing on boards and spine. Pictorial design on front board in gold. Fading and wear at spine and edges of the boards. Bindings repaired. Vol. I includes 54 black and white engravings and a map of the Upper and Lower Canadian territories. Vol. II contains 64 black and white engravings. Gold edges on paper. Text is clear and unmarked, except for some penciling on the lists of illustrations in each volume. Some foxing. William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) apprenticed with architect and antiquarian John Britton and became known for his drawings and watercolours. This study of the Canadian landscape is the second book on which Bartlett and author Willis collaborated.

London: Virtue & Co, nd.. Probable reprint of 1842 first edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 128, 116 p., interspersed with engraved plates. 28 cm. Map frontispiece. 2 title page illustrations. 54 plates in vol. I and 63 in vol. II. Rebound in leather by Keith Felton, Georgetown, with new green marble endpapers. All edges gilt. Engraved plates recently coloured before rebinding. All plates present as per lists in each section, each with tissue guard. Some thumbing. William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) apprenticed with architect and antiquarian John Britton before becoming known for his own drawings and watercolours. In 1838, Bartlett was in Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritimes, producing sketches for this volume by American writer Nathaniel Parker Willis. Published 1842, Canadian Scenery Illustrated portrays pioneer days in Canada, from native scenes to cities, from Aylmer, Upper Canada, to Halifax. There are also early views of Toronto, the Rideau Canal, the Ottawa River, the Eastern Townships,… Read More