637 pp. Illustrated with 15 plates (12 steel-engraved portraits, 1 wood-engraved, and 2 from a photographs), including frontispiece. 11¼x9, period full decoratively embossed dark brown calf, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt-vignette on the front cover, inner gilt dentelles, gilt patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" and the spine is lettered "Northern California, Illustrated."