British Artisan Expedition to America: Equipped and Sent Out by and at the Expense of the Proprietors of the Dundee Courier and Dundee Weekly News Newspapers

Dundee: W. & D. C. Thomson, Dundee Courier Office, 1893.
First Edition. Signed by Author

25cm x 15.5cm. [ii], viii, [2], 168, [2], 70, 12, [8] pages, black and white illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering.

Scottish artisan’s first-hand reports from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and a tour across the United States and Canada to report on the wages, homes, and working lives of American and Canadian labour in the late 19th century. This copy inscribed to James Mann by the Proprietors of the Dundee Courier 1896.

Minor soiling and rubbing to cloth. Tanning to free endpapers. Very Good Condition.

AU$250