Toronto Old by Scadding Henry D D (2 results)

Condition: A good copy. Edition : First Edition. , Recent morocco with matching marbled boards., Size : 8vo (145mm x 220mm), This book has two signatures from previous owners. One is from.

Edition : First Edition. , contemporary full publishers? green cloth, title in gilt on flat spine and upper board, upper board with decorative ruling and illustration, lower board with blind decorative ruling and illustration., Henry Scadding (1813?1901) was a Canadian author and clergyman. In 1838 he was appointed to a tutorship at Upper Canada College and was ordained a priest of the Church of England. He edited the Canadian Journal of Science, Literature, and History from 1868 to 1878. He also published many books, including Memorial of the Reverend William Honywood Riply (1849), Shakespeare the Seer?the Interpreter (1864), Truth's Resurrection (1865), Christian Pantheism (1865), Toronto of Old (1873), The Four Decades of York, Upper Canada (1884) and A History of the Old French Fort at Toronto (1887). In his writings Scadding was principally interested in history and religious themes. He was a founder and the first president of the York Pioneers, a Toronto-based historical society that preserved Scadding Cabin, a cabin built by his father in the early days of York. , Size : 8vo., , Illustrated with a frontispiece, decorative drop caps, decorative head and tail pieces. A great example, text is clean and crisp.