Addresses, Etc. Sir Edmund Walker, C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L. In Two Volumes.
N.p. 1890-1920. Hardcover. 23cm, being 48 pamphlets, various paginations, index, original covers bound-in, bound in dark blue cloth, slight outline of removed labels on spines, gilt spine titles, fine. With paper slips laid in "with the compliments of Sir Edmund Walker" (one dated in pencil June 1917) , unique. (cgc) A series of original pamphlets, arranged chronologically, reflecting the author's involvement in Canada's finances, institutions and arts. Sir Edmund Walker (1848-1924) was the president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce (1907-24), involved in the formation of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, Chancellor of the University of Toronto (1923) and President of the Canadian Institute. Pamphlets include : Canadian Banking (1891); Banking in Canada (1893); Early Italian Painters (1894); Why Canada is against Bimetallism (1897); List of the Published Writings of Elkanah Billings, F.G.S. , Palaeontologist (1901); "Palaeontology in the University (1905); Abnormal Features of American Banking (1908); The War and Finance (1915); Financial Aspects of the War and What the War Means to Canada. (1917); Peace and Retribution (1918); Japan and the Far East (1920); An Arbitrary Gold Reserve (1920). A important, and unique, collection of Canadian documents. Item #29974
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