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Octavo (22.7 cm x 14.6 cm), pp. vii, 63. Original grey wrappers, title-page reproduced in frame to upper cover, sewn binding. Lightly soiled around the edges, small chip from upper outer corner, else near fine copy. [2084]

Octavo. and Prompted by Patrick O'Meara, Assistant City Clerk; Alderman Allard acting as Whipper-in; George E. Desbarats, ex-Queen's Printer, Appointed by the City Hall Committee to examine Louis Perrault & Co.'s Accounts and to Certify their Correctness. Some idea may be formed of how he served the Tax Payer by looking at three of His Certificates ... John Lovell & Son Deprived of the Contract Because They Are Not French Canadians. The City Hall Committee Voted $1000, extra, of the Citizens' Money, to Patrick O'Meara, to keep Louis Perrault 'honest.' ... Montreal, Sept. 27, 1881. (22 cm x 14.5 cm), pp. 104, facsimiles, tables, grey printed paper wraps, sewn binding, 'Opinions of the Press' to rear and inside rear cover. Cover title reads: "John Lovell's Exposé of the Corporation Printing and Stationery Scandal!!!" Covers lightly soiled at the margins, pages 97-104 printed on different paper stock with tanning to the edges of this portion only. Otherwise an excellent copy of this most interesting complaint of fraud. [2248]

Section II, 1891. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada . (Read May 27, 1891), Quarto. (29.8 cm x 22.3 cm), pp. 45-59 + 2 plates. Peach-coloured printed wraps, sewn binding. Lacking rear cover. Fragile front cover chipped along bottom edge and spine, cover dust soiled, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce item. (Not found in Lowther).