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Catharine Parr Traill & Agnes FitzGibbon : Canadian Wild Flowers

John Lovell, Montreal, 1869

Rebacked skillfully retaining upper board with contemporary cloth, gilt floral design and gilt text, lower board with contemporary cloth and embossed version of upper board, flat spine with gilt black calf label. , One leaf is reinforced at the edge with a narrow strip of tissue paper. Otherwise, the book is in excellent condition. Text is clean and plates are vivid., Folio, P. (4), title, (1), dedication, (1) preface 5-6, contents 7-8, 9-86, (4)., Title is illustrated, and there are 26 decorative initials. Complete with 10 full coloured lithographic plates, which are printed in colour and in this example they are finished beautifully by further handcolouring.

“It was not, however, until years after [her husband’s] death that [Catharine] had the opportunity to collaborate with her widowed niece Agnes Dunbar FitzGibbon [Moodie], daughter of Susanna Moodie and like her mother a skilled illustrator of flowers. Agnes not only taught herself lithography but secured publication by John Lovell in 1868 of ‘Canadian wild flowers’, to which she contributed the illustrations and Catharine the text. The book was sold by subscription and went through at least four editions.� (Dict of Cdn Bio. XII:998)
The text is written by the famous early Canadian author Catharine Parr Traill. The book describes various plantlife found in Canada. It is the earliest Canadian botanical book and was completely produced in Canada itself. It was published in the year of Confederation.
, Dictionary of Canadian Biography XII:998

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