Author: PIERCE, PATRICIA Title: Canada - the Missing Years: The Lost Images of Our Heritage 1895-1924
Description: Don Mills, ON, Canada: Stoddart Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0773720529. 160 pages including index. Taken in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, these 200 photos were in the keeping of the British library in London, and were rediscovered only recently. Selected from the only complete surviving set of pictures sent to Ottawa for protection under the Copyright Act of 1895. The other two sets in Canada were partially destroyed by fire or thrown away in 1938 by order of the Cabinet. Book in fine unmarked condition with the following exception; Original purchaser wrote gift greetings upon half-title page and affixed 4 old black and white faimly photos to half-title page and back side of front free endpaper. These photos are of similar vintage to those in the book thus, in our opinion, they add to the book. Light wear to dust jacket.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; CANADA HISTORY GENERAL Canada - The Missing Years: The Lost Images of Our Heritage 1895-1924 History Pictorial Works Description and Travel Views 160 pages including index. Taken in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, these 200 photos were in the. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0773720529 : 1895 1924 160 . 19th 20th 200 Canadian
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