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DENT, John Charles [1841-1888].. The Canadian Portrait Gallery.
4 Volumes. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., 256; 2 p.l., 224; iv, 256; viii, 223. text in double columns. 95 tinted lithographed portraits with tissue guards. A near fine tight bright set in original gilt, black & blind-stamped brown cloth, all edges gilt (small nick in rear joint of Vol. I & front free-endpaper detached). printed book label of Richard Miller. engraved bookplates of Frank B. Pidgeon, Omemee, by Leslie Victor Smith, dated 1946. First Edition. Dent's most ambitious undertaking contains biographical sketches of 204 prominent figures in Canadian history, 185 of them written by Dent himself. Some had originally appeared in the Weekly Globe. The portraits were lithographed by Rolph, Smith & Co., Toronto, some after photographs by Notman. In his Bookplates of Leslie Victor Smith (1947), William Colgate suggests that among Canadian bookplate artists "probably no one is more widely recognized for the fine quality of his work than Leslie Victor Smith".
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