Motives for a subscription towards the relief of the sufferers at Montreal in Canada, by a dreadful fire on the 18th of May 1765
Subtitle: in which 108 houses, (containing 215 families, chiefly Canadians,) were destroyed, and the greatest part of the inhabitants exposed to all the miseries attending such misfortunes : the whole loss in buildings, merchandize, furniture, and apparel, amounted to £.87,580, 8s. 10d. sterling, no part of which was or could be insured
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Fires; History; Fire, 1765; Incendies
Other titles: Case of the Canadians distressed by fire at Montreal
Notes: Engraved vignette on t.p has legend: At Montreal May MDCCLXV.

Half-title: The case of the Canadians distressed by fire at Montreal.

Second & third eds. (both [London : s.n., 1766?]) have variant half-title: The case of the Canadians at Montreal distressed by fire. Cf. TPL 4741; Vlach (Laurentiana) 550.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ [E]².

References: Gagnon I 2464; NUC pre-1956, v. 397, p. 671; TPL 4741; Vlach, M. Cat. de la Bibliothèque nationale du Quebec ... avant 1821, no. 550.

Imprint from NUC.