The Art of the Biographer — Edited by R.B. Fleming — Signed First Edition — Dundurn Press, 1992
Boswell's Children: The Art of the Biographer, edited by R.B. Fleming, is a scholarly collection of essays on biography as a literary and historical form, drawn from a 1991 conference on biography and history hosted by the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Contributors include Francess Halpenny, founding General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, who surveys biography's past and future; Elspeth Cameron on truth in biography; and essays ranging across subjects from Aimee Semple McPherson to Dr. Norman Bethune to Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
This copy is signed and personally inscribed by editor R.B. Fleming on the title page to Nona Macdonald Heaslip, the noted Canadian arts philanthropist: "For Nona, Who Loves History" — a genuine association copy connecting this volume to one of Canada's most significant patron families.
Very good. Clean interior with no tears or loose pages. Binding secure, square, and tight. Pages bright and unmarked, aside from the inscription. Original dust jacket present; light shelf wear with a small crease to the top edge. Boards beneath are clean.
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