Brown leather binding with raised banding and gilt title on the spine. Embossed pattern on both boards. All edges gilt.

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Second Edition printed 1868  This book is a clean rendition, largely factual accurate but its tone is exceedingly dry to the modern reader. Excerpt from The History of Canada: ‘From Its First Discovery to the Present Time Home Government ‘and the prisoner made up his mind to accept the inevitable and serve out the full term of his imprisonment. Contrary to
expectation, however, the action of the Assembly proved ineffective, and Collins was pardoned. But the shadow of his prison house never afterwards left him. He returned to the world a sadder and a wiser man, and there was little to complain of in the Freeman afterwards. He continued to publish it until September, 1834, when he fell a victim to the cholera, and the Freeman died with him. Having disposed of the Collins matter, the Assembly turned its attention to other business. In Upper, as well as in Lower Canada. Government still retained the casual and territorial revenues and these, in addition to a permanent grant of made several years previously, had now increased sufficiently to make the Executive completely independent of the Assembly, as regarded an annual vote for the Civil List. Strong resolutions were passed against this condition of things, and a firm determination evinced to acquire control of all the provincial revenues.