Follow the Birds to Victoria The Capital City of British Columbia
Victoria, BC: Victoria and Island Publicity Bureau, [1920]. Ronald Threlkeld Jackson. Loose sheet unfolds to 12 panels. Folding tourist brochure measures 31 x 47 cm folded to 24 x 11 cm (24" x 9.75"). With a color seascape reproduced on the cover, spanning three panels. Filled with many black-and-white photographs depicting the natural and built environment in and around Victoria. A vignette depicting an Northwest Coast indian canoe in motion is repeated across the top of panels. Slight wear along folds, and with two short, closed tears measuring less than an inch each. Very Good-. Item #5873
Although undated, we posit 1925 as the publication date, based on the photographs and the style of the illustrator - Ronald Threlkeld Jackson (1902-1992). As a young man, Manitoba-born Jackson studied in both London and Paris; as such, this is likely a very early commission in his career, a career spent interpreting the maritime life of coastal British Columbia. The only institutional holding in British Columbia, per OCLC, is at Simon Fraser University. Scarce. Now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.
Price: $50.00