Letters From Van Dieman's Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment For Political Offences Committed in Upper Canada
Letters From Van Dieman's Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment For Political Offences Committed in Upper Canada
Letters From Van Dieman's Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment For Political Offences Committed in Upper Canada

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Letters From Van Dieman's Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment For Political Offences Committed in Upper Canada

WAIT, Benjamin

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Title Continues: Embodying, Also, Letters Descriptive of Personal Appeals in Behalf of Her Husband, and His Fellow Prisoners, to the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty, and the United Legislature of the Canadas, by Mrs. B. Wait. Benjamin Wait (1813-1895), rebel, was born in Markham Township, Upper Canada. His participation in the rebellion of 1837-38 led to a death sentence, commuted to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), where he arrived in 1839. Due to the efforts of his wife, he received a pardon in 1842, but he had already escaped, eventually reaching the United States.He spent the rest of his life in New York and Michigan. TPL 2622, Sabin 10069.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: A. W. Wilgus
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Date Published: 1843
  • Place Published: Buffalo
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    vi, 7-356 p. 18 cm. Illustrated with a woodcut frontisportrait and a folding map at the rear printed in white on black titled Van Diemen's Island.Black horizontally ribbed cloth with leather spine stamped in gilt.Moderate wear with scuffing at the corners and spine ends.Moderate to near-heavy foxing on the first dozen leaves, then light foxing throughout, generally around the page edges.A dime-sized circular embossed blind-stamp appears at the foot of the frontis, with just a few letters visible. Mark repeated on a front endpaper. Slight spine lean.

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