Summering in Colorado
Denver: Richards & Co. 1874. First Edition. [2-first blank],[8],[9]-158, [4-ads] pages. Plus ten albumen photographs inserted on card stock, each with letterpress border and photographer credit "J. Collier, Photo." 8vo. Rust cloth with gilt title on front panel (spine blank). Light blue endpapers. Wear at extremities, still a sound copy. Albumen tonality is very good. There is marginal dampstaining on the top edge, almost entirely marginal and not affecting text. Previous owner name pencilled on front endpaper. Good. Cloth. [25682]
This book was produced with between zero and fifteen albumen photographs (with Bill Reese noting the usual complement is four to eight).
Our copy, which contains ten images, all different, with title captions in the negative as follows: "Clear Crek Canon, C. C. P.R.", "Clear Creek Canon, C. C. R. R.", "Central City", "Boulder Canon", "On the Grand Middle Park", "Cathedral Rocks, Garden of the Gods", "Monument Park", "Garden of the Gods", "Rainbow Falls Manitou" and "On the Mountain Tops."
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