THE WEEK
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND CRITICISM
Bound volume issues:
Volume 1, Number 1 (Thursday, December 6th, 1883) to Thursday, May 29th, 1884
26 Issues in Total Toronto C. Blackett Robinson 1883 to 1884
600.00Flexible cloth covers which are in poor condition with soiling, staining, darkening along the spine, wear, mottled. Blank pages in front and back are dampstained and soiled, with worm holes(?) to the last 2 blank pages and paste down on rear cover, inside front cover has some separation and gaps at the top and bottom, former owner's name with "Property of..." in pen on front free endpaper (dated 1890). The papers bound-in are in good+ condition, nice actually, with a few small tears to a few issues along the edges, a bit of dampstaining on a few pages, a few issues have a very small mailing label affixed to the front of the first page of an issue. This volume could use a new binding.
1 to 416pp (each issue is page numbered consecutively), 26 issues in total.Flexible green cloth book, size is 10" x 14 1/2".
A bound volume of the first 26 issues of The Week published in Toronto. According to Wikipedia, "The Week was a seminal literary magazine in Canada published between 1883 and 1896. It was subtitled as Canadian Journal of Politics, Society and Literature. It was 'Canada's leading political and literary periodical'. The magazine was headquartered in Toronto. Prominent contributors included poet Charles G. D. Roberts; journalist and novelist Sara Jeannette Duncan; and political critic and intellectual Goldwin Smith. Smith also edited the magazine." Topics covered in most issues are "Events of the Week", "Literature", "The Periodicals", "Contributed Articles", and more.
The first 12 issues were edited by Charles G. D. Roberts, he left due to long hours and disagreements with the founder Godwin Smith (all 12 issues edited by Roberts are present in this volume).
A scarce volume of this early Toronto newspaper / journal.
Please note: this is a very large and heavy book and shipping will be more.
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