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The Unique Copy: (Extra-)Illustration, Word and Image, Book History, and Print Culture
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Abstract

This article is a case study of photographs as extra-illustrations using as an example the third volume in the series of books by Sir James MacPherson LeMoine (1825–1912), published in 1865 under the subtitle , which was the first literary work in Canada to be commercially illustrated with photographs. Original albumen photographs made by photographer Jules-Isaïe Benoît Livernois (1830–65) depicted many of the country villas described by the author in the section referred to as ‘Our Country Seats’. The readers of turned this work into a complex and intimate record of a community by liberally augmenting the official photographs with individual prints selected independently for their copies. The surviving books collectively serve as a kind of regional album, preserving the tastes and aspirations of some of the 500 subscribers living in and around Quebec City in the mid-nineteenth century.

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