c1868 California Life Illustrated
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Description
Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
A scarce UK edition of this exploration of the scenes and history of California as it was during the Victorian era.
The thirty-second thousand of the UK edition of this work.
Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further engraved plates. Collated, complete.
Undated; dated circa 1868 via the publisher's imprint of 'Hodder and Stoughton', which changed from the 'Jackson, Walford, and Hodder' imprint of the first edition in that year.
Former owner's inscription to head of front free endpaper.
Written by William Taylor, an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with instances of fading to cloth of front board, and handling marks to rear board. Inscription to head of front free endpaper. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good
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