Canada Under the National Policy: Arts and Manufactures, 1883
Montreal: The Industrial Publishing Company, 1883. Soft cover. Folio. Very Good. Item #014625
Orig. pictorial paper boards, new cloth spine. 176 pp., including ads. Recently professional rebacked with new spine, some paper repairs. Orig. boards damp stained, rubbed, worn at extremities. Some marginal chipping and short tears to text block (text unaffected). Cockling to paper inside covers. Interior age toned, paper embrittled. Some moderate soiling to endpapers. "The National Policy was a central economic and political strategy of the Conservative Party under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, and many of his successors in high office. It meant that from 1878 until the Second World War, Canada levied high tariffs on foreign imported goods, to shield Canadian manufacturers from American competition." [The Canadian Encyclopedia]. Scarce.
Price (CAD): $350.00