Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Volume 1) 1000 to 1700 Laurentian Edition by Brown, George W. (Editor) - 1965-01-01

Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Very little wear overall. Jacket has been reinforced, the tape at the flaps just barely leaving marks upon the endpp. Text is clean. 'The first multi-volume dictionary of Canadian biography is also the first large national dictionary to be issued from the outset in chronological arrangement. Each volume will cover a specific number of years and be self-contained, with biographies arranged from A to Z, and full bibliography and index. Volume 1 includes 594 biographical articles, dealing with personages of New France, Acadia, the Hudson's Bay Company, Newfoundland, early martime explorers, Indians, and others.' 755 pages..

Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Half leather and cloth with gilt lettering, graphic and top page edges. FIRST EDITION. VOLUME I ONLY. "Five hundred copies of this Edition have been printed, of which this is Copy No. 27." Gifted to L.C. Webster, President of Hackett Co. of Can. Ltd. on front free page. The corners are not bumped. Illustrated. 755 pages.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965. First Edition. Half-Leather. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in black leather with decorated paper to boards; gilt decoration to front board; gilt up upper page edges. Fine.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. First Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1965 and 1969. Limited to an edition of five-hundred of which this is one-hundred and eighty-four. Black leather with gilt title to spine and cloth covered boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt up upper page edges. Some soiling to front free endpaper and bottom outside corner of first volume, same corner also damp wrinkled slightly. Front endpapers of second volume abraided around edges, with some loss of paper at bottom edges.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. 15 volumes in very good condition. 14 volumes and an index. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Beige dustjackets in very good condition, volume 14's dustjacket is red and illustrated. Jackets are at various levels of fading/darkening. Lightly worn around the edges. VG/VG ******very heavy, will require extra postage . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. 15 volumes in very good condition. 14 volumes and an index. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Beige dustjackets in very good condition, volume 14's dustjacket is red and illustrated. Jackets are at various levels of fading/darkening. Lightly worn around the edges. VG/VG ******very heavy, will require extra postage . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.