1842 Canadian Scenery Illustrated

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first edition.

Volume II only, of a total of two volumes, lacking Volume I. 

A beautiful volume exploring the striking scenery of Canada. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title, and sixty-two plates. Collated, complete. 

Illustrated by W. H. Bartlett, drawn from his four voyages to the United States and Canada between the years 1836 and 1852. 

In the autumn of 1836 Bartlett visited Niagara Falls in the company of the American author, poet and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis, who provides the text accompanying the plates in these volumes.

Including plates and passages dedicated to locations such as the towns of Nova Scotia, Lake Ontario and Quebec.