- The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville

London , Richard Bentley , 1843. Cloth. A scarce, illustrated three volume set of the Nova Scotian writer's work The Clockmaker. This is a scarce three volume set of Thomas Chandler Haliburton's novel The Clockmaker; or The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville. The novel was originally published in The Nova Scotian Newspaper.Volume I has three plate illustrations. Volume II has a frontispiece and three plate illustrations. Volume III has a frontispiece and four plate illustrations. Collated, complete. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge and author and was the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, with some wear to the original cloth. The spines are uniformly faded. There is a bookbinder sicker and previous owner inscriptions to the three front pastedowns. Internally, generally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: none. Very Good .

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