LOVE (MARY) OR LUCY LYON A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. To Which is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady.
H.R. Thomas and Westley and Tyrrell, Juvenile Repository, 1825. First edition. 20th century green cloth. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18 x 11.5 cm); viii, 58, [4] pp. ads.; 40 hand-colored woodcut illustrations of native life (20 full-page). Light wear to cloth, pp. 7/8 with a restored loss from a marginal defect and a marginal tear, scattered foxing, offsetting and toning, occasionally significant, one leaf slightly narrow.

A rare little Arctic juvenile, which has been attributed to either Mary Love, a native Canadian, or to Lucy Lyon, the wife of Captain George Francis Lyon who travelled to the Arctic with Parry, and on whose illustrations the woodcuts in the work are based. Lande 2066; Osborne I, 75.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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