[Rarebooks] FS - Two Months on the Tobique

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

/*TWO MONTHS ON THE TOBIQUE, New Brunswick. An Emigrant's Journal, 
1851.*/ Bound in original carmine cloth, ruled in blind, and lettered in 
gilt. Smith, Elder and Co., London. 1866. Small 8vo, pp. vii, 196.

No author's name is shown, but TPL attributes authorship to "London, 
M.C.S." [sic]. The name "Macworth Shove" is written in pencil at the top 
of the title page. According to the Preface, the author sailed from 
England in the fall of 1851, and for two months lived in a wigwam on the 
banks of the Tobique River in the interior of the Canadian province of 
New Brunswick (although it was then not organised as a province but was, 
until 1867, subject to British suzerainty). The author "came to the 
conclusion, as far as his own experiences enabled him to judge, that the 
chances of success were not in the emigrant's favour. But he recorded 
his impressions of his voyage out there, of his short sojourn in St. 
John and Fredericton, and of his two months' solitude in a forest 
wigwam." Also published by Smith, Elder, as "Adventures in Canada / 
Being Two Months on the Tobique", without a date of publication, but 
with a frontispiece. See TPL 3181 for our title, and TPL 3182 for the 
alternate title.

The boards of our copy are worn and soiled, with bumping to the corners, 
and rubbing to the edges. The spine was beginning to detach and our 
conservator expertly repaired (but did not hide) that defect. The front 
hinge has been repaired, although this is difficult to discern. Early 
signature of "W. L. Ewart" on front free endpaper. Contents generally 
clean, with a few random spots of soiling. A good copy, which may be 
read without trepidation.

Price: $350.00.

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