THE OLD JUDGE; Or, Life In A Colony. By The Author of "Sam Slick, The Clockmaker, Etc.
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street. No Date [circa 1860]. Reprint. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt and blind on spine and front panel, the titles reverse-blocked in gilt. (vii) + 350 pp, [2] pp ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard, pale coated endpapers. Issued as Volume XII in "Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions of Modern Popular Works", as per the catalogue at the rear (which lists up to this title only).Very light wear, minor fraying near spine head, corners a bit soft; a Very Good copy, pretty attractive. Item #313950
¶ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. THE OLD JUDGE..., a novel set in Nova Scotia, was originally issued by Henry Colburn in two volumes in 1849. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography states, "Not excepting Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada by Susanna Moodle, it remains the most graphic picture of colonial society in British North America that we have."
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