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Best known for publishing a vivid early record of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, this Halifax-based imprint is linked to a rare illustrated historical work rather than a large body of books. Its surviving title captures a moment of disaster and recovery with the feel of a contemporary document.
Project Gutenberg lists Royal Print & Litho Limited as the author of The Halifax Catastrophe, and the text itself presents the company as the Halifax publisher that issued the book in 1917. Rather than an individual writer, this appears to have been a printing and publishing firm associated with documenting local events in print.
The work it is best known for today, The Halifax Catastrophe, is an illustrated account of the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917. Project Gutenberg describes it as a collection of forty views showing the scale of the destruction, while the ebook text identifies Royal Print & Litho Limited as the issuing publisher in Halifax, Canada.
Available catalog records found here also point to Royal Print & Litho as the publisher of other early 20th-century Canadian historical material, including a 1920 edition of The Eighty-fifth in France and Flanders by Joseph Hayes. Because reliable biographical information about the company itself is very limited in the sources I found, it is best understood as a historical printing house remembered mainly through the publications that survive.