Moodie / Traill

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small book, dark green leather w/ gilt bouquet on front cover. Rebacked. Internally good, foxing and browning to pages. With eight elegant Illustrations from steel engravings., , Contains the pieces ;1) "The Release Of The Caged Lark" By Mrs. Moodie, 2) "The Picture" By Mrs. Moodie. 3) "The Little Shepherdess" By Miss Agnes Strickland Read More

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Quebec : : Hunter, Rose & Co. London MDCCCLXXII, 1862. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Association copy. Original boards rebacked. A very good+ copy 8vo. 22cm, first Cdn. edition, xiii,779,[4],p., ads., Errata, in the original blind decorated cloth, laurel border on the outside cover, with gilt titles on the spine and emblem. Contains five hundred biographical sketches ( from Jacques Cartier, Champlain, Frontenac, Sir J. Cabot, Hon. Judge Chapman, Col. J. H. Wallace, Earl of Dalhousie, Rev. M. Demers, Sir J. Douglas, Chief-Justice Hey, Hon. Judge Kerr, Sir A. Mackenzie, Gen. Prescott, D. M. Rogers, Bishop Stewart, La Salle, Jolliet, Marquette, Hennepin etc.), listed chronologically with an index., Owned by Henry T. Strickland (1835-1908) and signed"Henry J. Strickland. Lake Cottage. Ashburnham Sept 30, 1864"Father: Major Samuel STRICKLAND. Samuel was the brother of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill and aunts to Henry T, this book owner., Henry Thomas STRICKLAND was born 1835 in Lakefield, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and died 1908. He married Margaret ROGERS, daughter of James G. ROGERS and Maria BURNHAM. She died 1865. He married Ann Mompesson MORGAN February 17, 1869 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.Father: Samuel STRICKLAND b: 1804 in Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England. Mother: Mary REID T.P.L. 4164. Lande 660. Read More

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London: Charles Knight & Co, 1838. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Quite clean, very good condition with original cloth binding. Sm.8vo. vii, 351, Original brown, blind stamped, cloth covers with gilt to spine. Profusley illustrated with black & white engravings and line drawings. 20 illustrations as called for on page vii plus frontis. Spine and covers slightly rubbed, with small marks. Top and bottom of spine with crushing. Corners slightly bumped. Many pages uncut. A clean and tight copy. Owners initials on main title page. A volume of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge., , It was first published by Knight in 1836.A fascinating glimpse of Canada in the 1830s and a classic text for literature on Canada. Composed of letters written by the author to her mother and friends in England, the Backwoods includes much useful and interesting information on home-making under pioneer conditions, pioneer recipes for making maple sugar, vinegar, &c. Mrs. Traill, who emigrated to Canada with her husband, a lieutenant in the 21st Fusiliers, also gives an account of her journey and settlement near Rice Lake, Upper Canada, August 1832-May 1835. Read More

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