By Track and Trail Through Canada

Author Edward Roper (British, 1833 - 1908)

Publisher W H Allen & Co

Date1891

Object number00032038

NameBook

MediumInk on paper, cloth

DimensionsOverall: 235 x 170 x 50 mm

ClassificationsBooks and journals

Credit LineANMM Collection Jointly acquired by the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria and the USA Bicentennial Gift funds

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DescriptionBook titled 'By Track and Trail Through Canada' by Edward Rober, F.R.G.S. With numrous original sketches by the author. London: W.H. Allen & Co., Limited, and at Calcutta. 1891.HistoryEdward Roper (1833-1908) was born in London and emmigrated to Canada in the 1840s. His trip to Victoria in 1852 was the first of his trips around the world. Roper was an engraver and artist. In the early 1870s he established an engraving company in Victoria and published an illustrated newspaper. By 1886 he settled in Kent were he supported himself by writing and illustration.