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Spiral Bound. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 44. Small 8vo., measuring 6"x9". Illustrated card covers bearing a photograph in black and white of the Swan River United Church to the centre of the front cover; held with bright red plastic spiral binding. Many black and white advertisements by sponsoring local businesses, and merchants. The prefatory remarks provide for a short history of the Swan River United Church, and a list of the members of the 'Woman's Committee'. Included in this scarce offering are a rich selection of local, Canadian, and ethnic recipes all accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Relishes, Pickles & Appetizers; Soups, Salads, Beverages; Miscellaneous: Meat Substitutes and Vegetables; Meat, Fish, Poultry; Rolls, Pies, Pastries; Cakes & Cookies; Desserts; Jelly, Candy, Preserves. Covers rubbed, some edgewear, tide-marks confined to both the front, and rear cover. Internally, the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, good. Exceedingly rare, and unrecorded in OCLC at time of cataloguing. No copies available in commerce. At time of cataloguing not in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, University of Guelph Archives & Special Collections: Cookbook Collection, or McGill University Archives & Special Collections. Rare indeed.…

folio. pp. 1 p.l., [5]-86. hand-coloured lithographed title & 10 chromolithographed plates all with additional hand-colouring. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (joints & extremities frayed, inner hinges cracked & weak, stain to rear cover, dampstain to lower outer margin of title & first few leaves). Second Edition of the first large-scale colour plate botanical to be entirely produced and printed in the country. The work combined the talents of Canadian pioneer, author and accomplished amateur botanist Catharine Parr Traill and her niece Agnes Fitzgibbon, who took drawing and lithography lessons in preparation for the task. Five hundred copies of the first edition of 1868 were printed by subscription, and sold for the hefty sum of $5 each. The plates, copied from Nature's Own Book by the artist, were subsequently grouped, lithographed and coloured entirely by her own hand with the aid of three daughters and two female painting school students. In the second and third editions the plates were printed in colour and finished by hand. Thirty different wild flowers are depicted and described, including liver-leaf, Indian turnip, white trillium, adder's tongue, sweet wintergreen, squirrel-corn, yellow lady's slippers, wild orange lily, early wild rose, pitcher plant, &c. Lande 2266.cfDionne III 1360. cfWatters p. 643.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. folio. pp. [3]-4, [7]-8, [9]-88. (this copy lacking the Preface, pp. 5-6 which was never bound in). tipped-in 3-line errata leaf referring to errors on p. 8. chromolithographed title & 10 chromolithographed plates all with additional hand-colouring. tissue guards. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt (spine ends & corners worn & frayed). ownership entry of Mrs. David Smith, Lakefield, Ontario, dated December 1869. Third Edition of the first large-scale colour plate botanical to be entirely produced and printed in the country. The work combined the talents of Canadian pioneer, author and accomplished amateur botanist Catharine Parr Traill and her niece Agnes Fitzgibbon, who took drawing and lithography lessons in preparation for the task. Five hundred copies of the first edition of 1868 were printed by subscription, and sold for the hefty sum of $5 each. The plates, copied from Nature s Own Book by the artist, were subsequently grouped, lithographed and coloured entirely by her own hand with the aid of three daughters and two female painting school students. In the second and third editions the plates were printed in colour and finished by hand. In the third and fourth editions, the plates and text were re-arranged, with the previous first plate and corresponding text appearing at the end of the volume and the last plate and corresponding text appearing at the beginning. This is the only edition to contain a 2-page description of the title plate. Thirty different wild flowers are depicted and described, including liver-leaf, Indian turnip, white trillium, adder's tongue, sweet wintergreen, squirrel-corn, yellow lady's slippers, wild orange lily, early wild rose, pitcher plant, &c. cfLande 1660. cfDionne III 1360. cfWatters p. 643. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. folio. pp. 88. chromolithographed title with additional hand-colouring & 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates. tissue guards. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt (spine ends & corners frayed, marginal chipping to first few leaves, paper lightly embrowned). Signed & inscribed by the artist. Fourth (Limited) Edition of the first large-scale colour plate botanical to be entirely produced and printed in the country. This is copy no. 3 of an unspecified limited number, here with signed presentation inscription addressed to E.G.Caswell, from the artist, Agnes Chamberlin, "The Den", Lakefield, 1895. Canadian Wild Flowers combined the talents of Canadian pioneer, author and accomplished amateur botanist Catharine Parr Traill and her niece Agnes Fitzgibbon, who took drawing and lithography lessons in preparation for the task. Five hundred copies of the first edition of 1868 were printed by subscription, and sold for the hefty sum of $5 each. The plates, copied from Nature s Own Book by the artist, were subsequently grouped, lithographed and coloured entirely by her own hand with the aid of three daughters and two female painting school students. In the second and third editions the plates were printed in colour and finished by hand. In the added preface to this fourth edition the artist states that the text has been entirely reset by her Toronto publisher, Briggs, and that the plates are again entirely hand-coloured. Thirty different wild flowers are depicted and described, including liver-leaf, Indian turnip, white trillium, adder's tongue, sweet wintergreen, squirrel-corn, yellow lady's slippers, wild orange lily, early wild rose, pitcher plant, &c. cfLande S2221. cfDionne III 1360. cfWatters p. 643. Signed by Author(s).…