From Front Street to Queen's Park: The Story of Ontario's Parliament Buildings
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Hardcover. 4to. Very Good / Good. Item #003767
Presentation copy SIGNED by Member of Provincial Parliament George Ashe, Durham West, inscribed to verso of FFEP, with stationery laid in. With a chapter on the "Ontario Collection" by Fern Bayer. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and coat of arms of Ontario to upper front board. Pictorial endpapers. 160 p.p. Copious illustrations, most B&W and some in colour. Some rubbing to tail edge and spine ends, slight bowing to boards. Spine tilted. Dust jacket has large chip to spine head, creasing and bumping to edges, wear from removed sticker to upper front cover. From 1792, when Governor John G. Simcoe first set foot on Upper Canada soil, to 1893, when Queen's Park as we know it was opened to the public, the history of the democratic institutions of Ontario is as exciting as it is colourful. With exquisite photographs never before published, and a rich, descriptive text, From Front Street to Queen's Park is the definitive pictoral history of the Ontario Parliament buildings,and will remain so for many years to come.
Price: $60.00