Red cloth with elaborate decoration to the front board and spine; spine is a bit faded.  Top edge faded gilt.  Wear and small tears at the top and bottom of the spine. Bump to the fore-edge of the front board.  Corners bumped and worn.  Front hinge starting. Book plate on the front pastedown and gift inscription on the front free endpaper.  Foxing to the edges of the text-block and to the text.  However, the colored plates are unaffected.

From the Author's Note: Therefore his idea has been to describe the great natural features if the land, in its broader characteristics -- its coats, rivers, mountains, lakes, and prairies, these physical beauties and sublime effects of nature for which the region is specially famous.  With this he has attempted too depict the seasons, and the beauty of the Canadian woods.

In addition there is given a brief sketch of the settlement and development of the different communities, with special reference to the great centres of provincial and racial activities, and a reference to the people, its origins composite ideals, and the leading actors on its historical stage of progress and accomplishments.

Illustrated with seventy-seven (77) color plates by Thomas Mower Martin, with tissue guards intact.  Two illustrations by other artists mounted on the recto of the frontispiece.

Martin was a Canadian artist, born in London in 1838. He came to Toronto in 1862.  One of the founders of the Ontario art union, the Ontario society of artists, and the Royal Canadian academy, he was president of the first society of artists in Canada and director of the Ontario school of art. Among his works are "The Untouched Wilderness,"  "A Summer Idyll," "Whiskey Ring," "Sunrise, Muskoka," and "Canadian Game."

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