Author: Emma H. Adams (title page: "Author of Digging the Top Off and other stories")
Title: To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, with Sketches in Arizona, New Mexico, and British Columbia
Publication Information: Cranston & Stowe. Cincinnati Chicago, St. Louis 1888
Call #: F851 .A21
Book Size: 21 cm (H); 14 cm (l); 4.7 cm (spine)
Cover: Brown cloth; bevelled edges; front cover: title To and Fro Up and Down gilt (note font); graphic of a mountain (with silver/aluminum), black embossing edges of the mountain and trees below; gilt in the valley, cacti in the foreground, trees, plants. Note variety of fonts on front cover. Back cover plain with bevelled edges; Spine: title gilt; stripe and vine top and bottom of spine; some plants and outline of mountain gilt - spine design like the front cover.
Inside Book Covers: "Cracked ice" pattern paper, inside front and back covers
Paper Edges: all gilt
Illustrations: Cliffs of Columbia opposite title page; list of illustrations included
Comments:
- Preface by E.H.A.
- Contents - chapter numbers and titles
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Travel Literature
- Constructions of the American West
