The backwoods of Canada :. being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America.
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Category
Books
Date
1836
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3089525
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 351, [1] p. :. ill., map ;. 12mo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: Blathwayt armorial bookplate tipped in on front pastedown, name scratched off; front flyleaf contains manuscript ownership inscription in brown ink: 'Frances Elizabeth Philips, 13th May 1844, from her sister Ellen' [= Frances Elizabeth Philips, first wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (d.1869)] Binding: nineteenth-century tan leather over boards; gold tooling to board edges; gold tooled double fillet border on upper and lower covers; gold tooling to spine; green leather spine label with 'Backwoods of Canada' lettered in gold; marbled endpapers and edges.
Makers and roles
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) Catherine Parr Traill (1802-1899)