Canada's Financial Centre 1535 - 1930 [cover title].

Ottawa, Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd.,. Oblong 4to. Publisher's brown card wrappers, printed in green, with a black and white photograph mounted onto the upper board; secured with a brown ribbon teather to spine; unpaginated; light bumping to outer edge of upper board; else bright and clean internally; a near fine copy. First edition. This is a collection of photographs from across Montreal illustrating both new and old forms of architecture which can be viewed throughout the city. Photographs are accompanied by brief captions. 'No city in the new world offers the convention visitor so great a range of historic, scenic and recreational interest, combined with the conveniences and amenities of a present day metropolis, as does Montreal, Canada's largest city, and the financial, industrial, commercial and transportation headquarters of the northern half of the North American continent … Montreal is the financial centre of Canada, and the bank of Montreal, which is one of the strongest banks in the world, is an institution of which the city has reason to be proud' (p. [1]).