On The Big Bend (Mount Shasta) (1888)

By: James Dewing - William C. Fitler, John Muir

Size: 10.00 H x 7.00 W inches

Source: Muir, John, ed. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. San Francisco: James Dewing, 1888.

Item #: 81634

Photogravure, 25x35 cm (10x13.5”); 25.5x18 cm (10x7”) in the plate. Signed in the plate, l. left. W/ cover page. Matted & sealed.San Francisco-based publisher James Dewing (ca. 1846-1902) helmed the first major illustrated work on the West produced by Western Americans, Picturesque California, with text by the famous naturalist John Muir. The work was published serially in thirty parts, with >800 images produced by a variety of printing techniques, such as this example.

$150