Sacramento Illustrated: A Reprint of the Original Edition Issued by Barber & Baker in 1855; With an Introductory Note

Barber & Baker; Wenzel, Caroline (Introductory Note)

Published by Sacramento Book Collectors Club, Sacramento, CA, 1950

About this Item

One of 300 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Original publisher's rust-brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. A few pages unopened. 10" x 12 1/2." Pages xiv, 1-135, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Introductory Note by Caroline Wenzel. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for browning on endpapers and light age toning throughout. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight lean in the binding toward the fore-edge. A Near Fine copy. Publication No. 4 of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club (SBCC). This is a reprint of the 1855 edition of Sacramento Illustrated which was originally published by Barber & Baker, a Sacramento-based publishing firm that was founded by Edmund Lorenzo Barber (c. 1808-1870) and George Holbrook Baker (1827-1906). Barber & Baker's Sacramento Illustrated contained an early history of Sacramento and thirty-three wood engravings depicting scenes in and around Sacramento in the 1850s. Back colophon: "300 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena, California, January 1950.".

Seller Inventory # 026853

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sacramento Illustrated: A Reprint of the Original Edition Issued by Barber & Baker in 1855; With an Introductory Note
• Publisher: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, Sacramento, CA
• Publication Date: 1950
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books about Books
  • U.S. History
  • Western Americana