Heading: (Cherry, Edgar, & Co.)
Author: Ericson, A. W.
Title: Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Edgar Cherry & Co.
Date Published: 1884
Description: [2], ii, 107 pp. Illustrated with 24 mounted albumen photographs, with captions stamped beneath each photograph. 27x21 cm (10¾x8¼"), modern half morocco & red cloth, portion of original cover cloth with gilt lettering mounted on front cover. First Edition.Landmark work on lumbering in California, famous in the annals of books with original photographs, with 24 mounted albumen photographs of the Redwood forests of Northern California, in all stages of lumbering. Very rare, only a few copies were produced, and each copy varies somewhat in the photograph contents. "[An] impressive verbal and pictorial description of the logging industry on the northern coast of California" (Kurutz). Cowan, page 525; Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 7; Miles & Reese, Creating America 74; Truthful Lens 135.

Light dampstain to lower margins contents, not affecting photographs; very good.