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Dent, John Charles

The Last Forty Years: Canada Since the Union of 1841.

Toronto 1881 George Virtue Bound in ½ contemporary gilt morocco with gilt cloth. Spine with raised bands, blind-tooling and gilt title. Cover with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Ex libris Departement des Officiers en Loi de la Couronne, Province de Quebec. An excellent set. 4to Illustrated with head and tail pieces, colour lithographed frontispiece portraits of Governor-General the Marquis of Lorne and his Wife in volume 1, a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald in volume 2, and over 70 tissue-guarded plates depicting important figures and buildings in Canadian history. Minor wear to spine of volume 2. Plates are crisp and clean 2 vols. Pp. (i), half-title, portrait, portrait, title-page, contents, plates, 9-392; portrait, title-page, contents, plates, 9-649.

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