Hunter's Ottawa scenery, in the vicinity of Ottawa city, Canada
Contributors: Hunter, W. S.
Publisher: W.S. Hunter, Jr.
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Pictorial works; Ouvrages illustrés
Other titles: Ottawa scenery, in the vicinity of Ottawa city, Canada
Notes: In addition to the 14 views and folded map, the work includes a lithographed t.p. printed on plate paper.

Reference: Cf. TPL 3563 (1st ed., 1855).

Second ed. There is also a 1st ed. of this work. "'Ottawa scenery' first appeared in ... a small initial printing of ... a few hundred copies. A second edition ... still carrying the year 1855 on its title page, followed, probably in mid-1856 ... In the second edition the letterpress has been entirely reset, though the contents of Hunter's essay are virtually the same. In the first edition the signature marks on the gatherings of pages are numerals; in the second edition they are letters. Hunter altered the folding map for the second edition chiefly to show additional rail lines around Chicago. Bufford's shop redrew three of the lithographic views for the second edition. The need for a second edition seems to have arisen in the spring of 1856, when the Canadian Legislative Assembly ordered 140 copies of the book, one for each of its members. Presumably this was to inform the legislators about the town that had just become a contender in the consideration of sites for the new capitol. Because Hunter had apparently not forseen a need for a second printing, he had made no arrangements to keep standing either the type or the stones from which the first edition had been printed." Cf. Tatham, David. Winslow Homer and the illustrated book (New York : Syracuse Univ. Press, 1992), p. 23-24.