ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH; Or, Forest Life in Canada. Illustrations in Colour by R.A. Stewart.
Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913. First Canadian Edition. Large thick octavo, original rough red buckram cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front panel. [569] pp. Tipped-in colour frontispiece with tissue guard, two black & white portraits, five b&w views and a b&w reproduction of a bookplate (all with tissue guards), plus 8 additional tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards; all the colour plates by R.A. Stewart. This Canadian Issue is very scarce, and is comprised of the sheets of the Edinburgh (T.N. Foulis) edition with a cancelled (tipped-in) title leaf bearing the Toronto imprint, "Bell & Cockburn" in gilt at base of spine panel. Tanning to spine panel, small bumps to edges, a very good, sound clean copy. Item #314385
¶ Susanna Moodie (née Strickland; 1803 - 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada which was a British colony at the time. She was one of a family of writers, which including Agnes Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill. ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH is her account of life as a Canadian settler. Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada (soon to become Canada West), near modern-day Peterborough, Ontario during the 1830s. At the suggestion of her editor, she wrote a "guide" to settler life for British subjects considering coming to Canada. ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH was first published in London in 1852 (then Toronto in 1871). The work is part memoir, part novelization of her experiences, and is structured as a chronological series of sketches.
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