Wait Mrs B (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 356pp., frontispiece, folding map. Contemporary quarter-leather and papercovered boards. One half of the folding map lacking (torn away at the fold), corners rounded, scattered foxing throughout, an otherwise very good copy.

Written During Four Years Imprisonment for Political Offences Commited in Upper CanadaFirst edition. Frontispiece & a folding map. 16mo. An unsophisticated copy in original quarter calf, gilt. vi, 7-356pp. Buffalo, A.W. Wilgus, Wait's involvement in events prior to the Canadian revolution of 1837-8, resulted in a charge of high treason and a death sentence. Half an hour before he was due to be hanged, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Wait was transported to Van Diemen's Land, though had already escaped to New York before he received word of his pardon. These letters comprise a valuable account of life within the penal system and include descriptions of landscape, agriculture and customs and habits of the local Aborigines. Wait's pardon resulted solely from the efforts of his wife, who sadly died not long after they were reunited. Ferguson, 3762.