Notman william illus (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Pages 120-196 + 14 p. of ads. 23 cm. 5 pasted-in portrait photographs, one a photo of a painting. Blue card covers. Front cover detached, spine cracked, spine ends chipped, discoloured rear cover. Contains portraits and biographies of George Etienne Cartier, J. William Dawson, James Ferrier, Rev. Jean Jacques Lartigue, and William Morris. Photographer William Notman was born in Scotland in 1826 and moved to Montreal in the summer of 1856. As an amateur photographer, he quickly established a flourishing professional photography studio on Bleury Street, a location close to Montreal's central commercial district. The first Canadian photographer with an international reputation, Notman's status and business grew over the next three decades. Fennings Taylor was best known for his contributions to Canadian historical literature, predominantly as a biographer. His first and most noteworthy work was this collaboration with Notman, originally issued in monthly instalments such as this before being published as a three-volume work in 186568. Taylor's biographies for Portraits were strongly influenced by the nascent romantic nationalism of the Confederation era and his biographies are for the most part sympathetic.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 350 p., interspersed with plates. 23 cm. 29 pasted-in photographic portraits. Leather with gilt trim. All edges gilt. Front hinge cracked at bottom. Worn extremities and bumped corners. Front free endpaper missing and there is no title page. Includes Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Rev. John Bethune, Lt.-Gen. Sir John Michel; Alexander Tilloch Galt, Rev. Charles Felix Cazeau, Sir Dominick Daly, George Brown, Hector Louis Langevin, Hugh Allan, William Hamilton Merritt, Sir Allan Napier MacNab, many more. Portrait with bio for each man. …

Leatherbound. Zustand: Very good +. 350 p., interspersed with plates. 22 cm. 30 b&w portraits. Half leather with purple cloth. Small stain on front cloth and dark mark on rear. One portrait is loose but present. Includes Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Rev. John Bethune, Lt.-Gen. Sir John Michel; Alexander Tilloch Galt, Rev. Charles Felix Cazeau, Sir Dominick Daly, George Brown, Hector Louis Langevin, Hugh Allan, William Hamilton Merritt, Sir Allan Napier MacNab, many more. Portrait with bio for each man.…

Softcover. Zustand: Good. vi, 49, [11] p. 23 cm. 5 pasted-in portrait photographs. Blue card covers. Spine tail chipped. Some light soiling to outside and a little foxing to interior. Contains portraits and biographies of Viscount Monck, Rev. Francis Fulford, John A. Macdonald, S. L. Tilley, and Sir Louis H. Lafontaine. Photographer William Notman was born in Scotland in 1826 and moved to Montreal in the summer of 1856. As an amateur photographer, he quickly established a flourishing professional photography studio on Bleury Street, a location close to Montreal's central commercial district. The first Canadian photographer with an international reputation, Notman's status and business grew over the next three decades. Fennings Taylor was best known for his contributions to Canadian historical literature, predominantly as a biographer. His first and most noteworthy work was this collaboration with Notman, originally issued in monthly instalments such as this before being published as a three-volume work in 186568. Taylor's biographies for Portraits were strongly influenced by the nascent romantic nationalism of the Confederation era and his biographies are for the most part sympathetic.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 64, 154-280, vi, 346 p., interspersed with plates. 22 cm. 32 pasted-in plates. Half leather with cloth boards. Corners worn, some rubbing to leather and boards. Cloth at front is discoloured and soiled. Plate pages and surrounding pages are sometimes foxed but not usually the illustration itself. First part of book has a list of the portraits in vol. III but, since part of the book is missing, 6 names are not included (Robert Baldwin, P. J. O. Chauveau, Rev. William Ormiston, John Hillyard Cameron, John Hamilton and Louis Joseph Papineau). Portraits and bios included in first section are: Sir John Beverly Robinson, James Morris, William Price, Charles Tupper, Frederick Auguste Quesnel, Francis Hincks, Right Rev. John Strachan, Charles Dewy Day, Walter Shanly, William Molson, Alexander Carlisle Buchanan, Charles Richard Ogden, Right Rev. George Jehoshapat Mountain, James Cockburn, Davis Lewis Macpherson, Col. the Hon. C. M. de Salaberry, Henry Starnes, Rev. W. Agar Adamson. Names in second section are taken from vol. I: Viscount Monck, Most Rev. Francis Fulford, John A. Macdonald, Samuel Leonard Tilley, Sir Louis Hypolite Lafontaine, Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell, Edward Bowen, Antoine Aimé Dorion, Alexander Campbell, Rev. William Leitch, James Hodges, Joseph Howe, Réné Edouard Caron, Lieut. Col. Irvine, Thomas Talbot. Thomas Talbot plate has been removed but all others present. Preface in second part dates to 1865 and is therefore presumably from an earlier edition.…