Toronto: Past and Present: Historical and Descriptive. A Memorial Volume for the Semi-Centennial of 1884

4to. 330 pp. plus several pages of articles on Toronto businesses with illustrations of their headquarters. Tissue-guarded frontis plate of "Toronto, from Kingston Road" and several tissue-guarded plates of mayors and aldermen. Includes lists of committee members for the city's Semi-Centennial Celebration. No. 116 of 1025 copies. Brown pebble-grain cloth with gilt coat of arms and titles, blue decorative endpapers. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, name stamp on first blank page. Frontis tissue and two plate leaves detached; hinges reinforced with cloth tape but binding is firm. Corners bumped, wear to head/tail of spine.