Langton W a Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Binding sturdy, text clean. Back cover slightly discolored in spots due to water, else in very good condition indeed. Previous owner's mark on title page. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Binding sturdy, text clean. Back cover slightly discolored in spots due to water, else in very good condition indeed. Previous owner's mark on title page. Book.

1926. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 310pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Map endpapers, frontispiece, plates, notes, index. A slight lean. "During the first four years after my father came out to Canada he wrote home to his family circle in England a series of letters which form the first part of this collection. These letters were carefully copied by his father, to whom they were chiefly addressed, and were bound in book form. They have thus been preserved in their entirety. The reason for copying them is suggested by the only surviving original letter. At that time letters were sent without envelopes and, as postage was changed by the sheet and was expensive, long letters, like this which survives, were so diligently 'crossed' in the writing that they were difficult to read or refer to" - from the Preface by W. A. Langton. Letters of John Langton. Book about Audit Office. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: Blythe--Ontario; Canada; Peterborough--Ontario; Upper Canada. (Canada, Settlement--Canada).…

Condition: fine. First Edition. T.P.L. 4603. "The letters, pp3-195, cover the period 1833-37 when Langton was settling on a farm on Sturgeon Lake near Fenelon Falls. Extracts from `letters of the transition period', pp197-303, were written between 1844 and 1869 when he was at Peterborough engaged in the lumber trade, and at Toronto as auditor of public accounts, etc. The later group of letters includes some concerning the University of Toronto, of which Langton was a senator and vice-chancellor" 8vo, 21.5cm, 310p. frontis and 16 plate illustrations, mapped endpapers, wine cloth, a fine copy.…