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Redwood and lumbering in California forests : a reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition

Title
Redwood and lumbering in California forests : a reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition / edited, with an account of its publication in 1884, by Peter E. Palmquist ; including a catalog of all known photographs ; preface by Gary F. Kurutz.
Publication
San Francisco : Book Club of California, c1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Noyes, Charles Goodwin, 1833-1890.
  • Kellogg, Albert, 1813-1887.
  • Cherry, Edgar, 1845-1930.
  • Palmquist, Peter E.
  • Edgar Cherry & Company.
  • Book Club of California.
Description
112 , [2] p. : ill., ports.; 22 x 28 cm.
Series Statement
Publication / Book Club of California ; no. 174
Uniform Title
Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 174.
Subject
  • Cherry, Edgar, 1845-1930
  • Redwood and lumbering in California forests
  • Redwood (Wood)
  • Coast redwood
  • Redwood industry > California
  • Forests and forestry > California
  • Lumbering > California
  • Logging > California
  • Photography > California > Early works to 1900 > Catalogs
  • California > Pictorial works
Note
  • One of 600 copies "produced by the Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, California. Text pages were printed letterpress by James Robertson and Wesley B. Tanner"--Colophon, p. [114]. Text printed on buff paper.
  • The original ed. (San Francisco, Cal. : Edgar Cherry & Co., 1884) consisted of two essays, "Redwood lumbering" by Charles Goodwin Noyes and "Essay upon redwood" by Albert Kellogg, and 24 mounted albumen prints attributed to Cherry taken from a series of ca. 200 (selection varies from copy to copy).
  • The present ed. includes the original text and 25 full-page (one on front cover) and 73 small reproductions of the 73 photos. present in the 26 known extant copies of the original ed.; with 2 additional reproductions of photos. by Cherry, ports. of the authors and facsim. of original t.p.
  • Binding, publisher's, by the Schuberth Bookbindery, of beige German linen with reproduction of photo. mounted on front cover.
Indexed In (note)
  • Olmsted, D.H. Seventy years
Call Number
*KP (Book Club) 89-407
LCCN
83244365
OCLC
NYPG89-B41044
Title
Redwood and lumbering in California forests : a reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition / edited, with an account of its publication in 1884, by Peter E. Palmquist ; including a catalog of all known photographs ; preface by Gary F. Kurutz.
Imprint
San Francisco : Book Club of California, c1983.
Series
Publication / Book Club of California ; no. 174
Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 174.
Indexed In:
Olmsted, D.H. Seventy years, 174
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Added Author
Noyes, Charles Goodwin, 1833-1890.
Kellogg, Albert, 1813-1887.
Cherry, Edgar, 1845-1930.
Palmquist, Peter E.
Edgar Cherry & Company.
Book Club of California.
Research Call Number
*KP (Book Club) 89-407
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