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The Makers of Canada 20-Volume Limited Edition 38/120 for the United Kingdom, Edited by Duncan Campbell Scott, FRSC, and Pelham Edgar, Ph.D. Publishers: London, T.C. and E.C. Jack, Toronto, Morang and Co., Limited 1905-1908 All 20 volumes are from 38/120 set, have gilded top-text block, deckle edges (front and lower block), Quarter leather brown cloth textured board, gilded title, emblem, author and publisher on the spine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. All volumes have an index section and tissue guarded frontispiece of the subject, and state on endpaper This work is limited to One hundred and Twenty Sets for the United Kingdom, Signed and Numbered , with each volume stating the number written in ink. Owner s plate, J. P. Watson, with a reference number and The Bungalow Library, Penetanguishene on the front pastedowns of all volumes. Some ghosting and foxing on flyleaves and endpapers. Some rubbing and wear to some of the spines and bumping of the corners and at the top and base of some of the spines. Bindings are tight with no loose hinges, pages or page separation from the spine. Small bubbles showing on some of the boards. ----- ABOUT THE SERIES: (Canadian Encyclopedia): A series of books designed to present a history of Canada through a study of its major figures. The original series contained 20 volumes which appeared between 1903 and 1908; an index volume was added in 1911 and a 21st volume in 1916. The publisher was George M. Morang of Toronto, and the editors were poet Duncan Campbell Scott and Professor O. Pelham Edgar of Victoria College; a third advisory editor, William Dawson LeSueur, was added later. The series sold extremely well and Morang brought out 2 less expensive 11-volume editions in 1910. Scott's John Graves Simcoe, with its excellent prose, and Adam Shortt's Lord Sydenham and Jean Newton McIlwraith's Sir Frederick Haldimand, with their thorough research, received high praise. Overall, though, the series was deemed deficient because of its overtly whiggish orientation, particularly in the selection of its subjects. This partisan charge is best exemplified in the case of LeSueur's biography of William Lyon Mackenzie; whose relatives particularly his grandson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, complained that the biographer was too critical. Between 1908 and 1913, 5 controversial court cases ensued over LeSueur's manuscript; Morang refused to publish it and LeSueur was prohibited from publishing it elsewhere. It did not appear until 1979, as part of the Carleton Library Series. Listed Alphabetically by subject's last name, all 38/20 1905-1908. 1) General Brock by Lady Edgar, 1905 --- 2) George Brown by John Lewis, 1906. --- 3) Lord Elgin by Sir John George Burinot, 1905. --- 4) Louis Joseph Papineau and Sir George Etienne Cartier by Alfred D. De Celles, 1905. --- 5) Samuel De Champlain by Narcisse E. Dion, 1905 --- 6) Lord Dorchester by A. G. Bradley, 1907 --- 7) Sir James Douglas by R.E. Gosnell, 1908. --- 8) Count Frontenac by William D. Le Sueur, 1906 --- 9) Sir Frederick Haldimand by Jean McIlwraith, 1905 --- 10) Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks by Stephen Leacock, 1907 --- 11) Joseph Howe, by Hon. James W. Longley, 1905 --- 12) Bishop Laval by LeBlond De Brumath, 1906 --- 13) Sir John A. Macdonald, by George R. Parkin, 1908. --- 14) William Lyon Mackenzie, by Charles Lindsey, 1908. --- 15) Wolfe and Montcalm, by the Abbé Henry R. Casgrain, 1905. --- 16) Egerton Ryerson by Nathaniel Burwash, 1905. --- 17) John Graves Simcoe by Duncan C. Scott, 1905. --- 18) Mackenzie, Selkirk, Simpson, by Rev. George Bryce, 1905. --- 19) Lord Sydenham by Professor Adam Shortt, 1908. The cloth textured cover has become separated from the front and back boards along the length of the book where the leader spine meets the board. --- 20) Wilmot and Tilley by James Hannay, 1907. Happy to send more pictures. Extra shipping charges will apply due to the number of volumes and weight.
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