INVENTORY #157112
The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Collated With the Best Editions (Vols. I & II only)
PARK, Thomas (ed.)
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Reform politician George Brown (1818 – 1880) was one of the Fathers of Confederation who attended the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences. But he is best known as the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe, Canada's most influential newspaper at the time, and his leadership in the founding of the Liberal Party in 1867. In 1859, the year he initialed this book, Brown and other Upper Canadian Reformers organised a convention in Toronto to discuss the governance of the province, in the hopes that agreeing to a unified policy would prevent divisions within the Reform movement. He was shot by a recently-fired Globe employee in 1880; while the wound was minor, Brown died of an infection.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham, For J. Sharpe; and Sold by W. Suitaby
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1806
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
2 vols. in 1: 166; 167 p. 13 cm. Frontispiece for each volume. Full leather. All edges marbled. Worn extremities, boards rubbed. Bookplate and small bookseller label on front pastedown. From library of George Brown, best known as founder and editor of the Toronto Globe. Signed with his initials G.B. when presented to Herbert Prodham (?)