1905 Northern Trails Some Studies of Animal Life in the Far North

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding

First edition, rebound in a red full calf prize binding, with a gilt motif of Wycliffe College, Stonehouse to the front board.

Written by William J. Long, an American writer, naturalist and minister. In the 1920s, he began spending his summers in Nova Scotia, claiming "the wilderness is getting too crowded".

This interesting work explores many different areas of nature in Canada, including the way of the wolf, trails that cross in the snow, Matwock of the icebergs, where the salmon jump, and much more.

Illustrated by Charles Copeland, an American book illustrator from 1887 to 1940, a member of the Boston Watercolour Society and Boston Art Club.

Bookplate awarding the work to K. A. Cleland for the most marked improvement of those in the Lower Third Form in Wycliffe College, dated 1907.