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Author: Hutchings, James Mason
Title: Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine - one bound volume and 11 individual issues
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Hutchings & Rosenfield
Date Published: 1856-1858
Description:

12 octavo volumes. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Includes:

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  Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, Vol. 1: July, 1856, to June, 1857. viii, 576 pp. Half morocco and boards, gilt spine; marbled endpapers. With partially obliterated presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Wear and rubbing to boards; front free endpaper detached and laid in; toning, scattered foxing; good or better. 1857.


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  11 individual issues: Volume 1, Numbers. 12 and 14; Volume 2, Numbers 3, 5-12. A few with wrappers, most disbound. [1857-58].

A gathering of early issues of this important and influential San Francisco based periodical. The literature, scenery, and history of California in the early days come alive in Hutchings' widely-read monthly.

Hutchings' California Magazine began publication in 1856 and ran for five years. Farquhar notes "...in the pages of his magazine there is preserved a good deal of material depicting the life and scenes of California in the decade following the Gold Rush -material notably lacking in Bancroft's works,- especially with respect to Yosemite, the Big Trees, and other scenic wonders...in 1860 [Hutchings] gathered together extracts from his magazine and published them in book form...Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California..."

Bound volume good, with detached front endpaper; individual issues mostly without wrappers, with the exceptions of vol. 1 no. 12 with wrappers intact, and vol. 1 no. 14 with front wrapper still attached; all issues with edgewear, including chipping, creasing, and some short tears; toning and varying degrees of foxing, vol. 1 no. 12 with light vertical crease, occasional soiling and areas of dampstaining; generally good.