Cloth, xxx, 257 pages, illustrations (part colour), portraits, maps; 27 cm. Ribbon bookmark. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. *** CONTENTS: The empty continent; The colonial era, 1534-1713; British America and French Canada, 1713-1763; The foundation of British Canada, 1763-1815; The middle period: ships, colonies, commerce, 1815-1867; The New Dominion struggling into life, 1867-1878; Better times, 1879-1896; The opening of the twentieth century, 1896-1914; Canada as a nation; Canada as a future world power. *** Illustrated by Canadian artists specially commissioned by the publisher: Stanley Royle - Chas. W. Jefferys - W. J. Phillips - A. Sherriff Scott - F. H. Varley - H. R. Perrigard - James Crockart - T. M. Schintz - Ernst Neumann. Size: 4to