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Picturesque California Rare 3 volume Variant Issu

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Title: Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico
Author: Muir, John, editor
Description: Three volumes. (iii)-xii, 144; [4], (145)-322; (232)-478 pp. Title page of Volume 2 reads "Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope"; Volume 3 without a title page (apparently as issued). Over 700 illustrations including 120 mounted full-page plates on India paper including etchings, photogravures, photo-etchings, etc., all with printed tissue guards; 17 plates on satin (including 2 not duplicating other plates); approximately 114 of the smaller in-text illustrations are also printed on India paper and mounted. (Folio) 18½x13¾ original half brown morocco and green buckram, spines and covers lettered in gilt.Known to have been issued in a number of formats the format of the present copy is unrecorded by Blanck, Kimes, or Currey & Kruska. Of the 15 formats described by Currey & Kruska, the leaf size (46.5 cm) of the present edition matches only that of the India Proof Edition of their Format C but that edition was issued in 2 volumes and did not include any prints on satin. Only the Imperial Japan Edition and the Connoisseur Edition included satin prints but those editions measured 60.5 cm and 41 cm respectively. An unique set, possibly assembled to order. Currey & Kruska 257; BAL 14744; Kimes 167-177.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco and New York
Publisher: The J. Dewing Company, Publishers
Date Published: 1888