WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE. by Lindsey, Charles. Edited, with numerous additions by G.G.S. Lindsey - 1908

Toronto: Morang, 1908. 542 pp, 9 1/2" H. Beige cloth with paper title label on spine (a duplicate label laid in at the last page at time of publication could be used to 'freshen' the book's appearance), top edge gilt. A volume from the "Edition De Luxe" (limited to four hundred sets - this copy unsigned/unnumbered) of The Makers of Canada series. Inscribed on front pastedown: "To my good friend / J.S. Willison / Nov. 26. 08. G.G.S. Lindsey". George Goldwin Smith Lindsey (1860-1920), editor of the book, was the son of the author, Charles Lindsey, and grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie. John Stephen Willison (later Sir John - 1856-1927) was the author of "Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party". B&w tissue-covered frontispiece. Contents: The Period and the Man; Early Years; Upper Canada Under the Constitution Act; "The Colonial Advocate"; Silencing the Press; Enters Parliament; Expulsions from the Assembly; Mackenzie's Mission to England; Municipal and Later Parliamentary Career; Sir Francis Bond Head's Arbitrary Methods; Precursors of Civil War; A Spurt of Civil War; Frontier Warfare; After the Rebellion; The Trials of an Exile; Last Years, Illness and Death; Index. Light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, some darkening to color of boards and spine, light browning to spine paper label, tiny ink mark on rear board - a few other tiny soiling marks, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear.. Inscribed by editor.. Edition de Luxe.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket.