MY CANADIAN LEAVES. FACSIMILE EDITION. by Monck, Frances E.O - 1963
by Monck, Frances E.O
MY CANADIAN LEAVES. FACSIMILE EDITION.
by Monck, Frances E.O
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
Toronto: Canadian Library Service / University of Toronto Press,, 1963. 168 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H) - green cloth with gold lettering and decoration on front board. Facsimile reprint edition of 2,000 copies - this copy unnumbered. Monotone photographs on front and rear pastedowns. Frances Monck's journal of her year (1864-5) in Lower Canada (with marginalia and corrections by the author), detailing the social life of the upper classes - the travel, balls, personalities, sports, the military, etc., as well as observations on scenery, weather, modes of transport, settlement, etc. Mrs. Monck was the sister-in-law of Lord Monck, Governor-General of Canada, 1861-1867. Small tear (archivally taped) and associated soft wrinkles at the fore-edge of pages 163/4, tiny bump to the fore-edge of the rear board, small slight bump at the top of the spine.. Facsimile Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition Facsimile Reprint.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Canadian Library Service / University of Toronto Press,
- Place of Publication Toronto
- Date Published 1963
- Keywords Frances E.O, Monck, Diaries, Journals, 19th century Canada, Social life, Balls, Sports, Skating, Fashions, Weather, Transportation, Montreal, Travel, Train, Military, Steamships, Royal Artillery, Personal Reminiscences, Women in Canada, Journals, Quebec,