A letter from Anthony Trollope describing a visit to California in 1875. Wood engravings by Mallette Dean. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1946. 21.5 x 14 cm (octavo), pp. [1-8: blank] [i-v] vi-viii [ix-x] [1-2] 3-32 [33: colophon] [34: blank] [1-8: blank] [the first and last leaves are used as paste-downs], four engravings on wood by Mallette Dean, color printing throughout, publisher's patterned salmon paper over boards with black cloth shelf back stamped in purple, deckled edges. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Number 5 of the "Colt Press Series of California Classics." The last of the twenty travel letters published in each issue of the Liverpool WEEKLY MERCURY from 3 July 1875 to 13 November 1875. The letter was reprinted in the October 1939 issue of the HUNTINGTON LIBRARY QUARTERLY with a prefatory note by Bradford A. Booth, that is included here with the letter. Trollope's brief account of his trip to Yosemite in September 1875 is found on pages [21]-30. "... the chief glory of the place depends on the almost perpendicular steepness and on the enormous altitude of the rocks which hem it in." This was the great English novelist's fifth and last trip to America. A fine copy. (#157251).
"... printed in an edition of / 500 copies" on colophon page.