Granite Crags
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. Very Good -. Item #32869
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in four colors (two shades of green, blue, and silver foil), reddish-brown glazed endpapers; viii,[2],384pp.; frontispiece and seven leaves of plates after watercolors by the author, folding map bound in rear of volume (collated complete). Cloth worn at corners and spine ends with brief exposure, moderate dust-soil and light spotting, scattered foxing throughout textblock, dark dampstains affecting four of the plates though not affecting text; overall Good to Very Good.
Narrative of the author's travels through the Yosemite published just two years after her account A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War in the South Seas--indeed, the first chapter of this work begins in Tahiti. Though the ODNB's judgment of both Gordon Cumming's output as a travel writer and landscape artist is severe, "the distances she travelled, the exotic locations she reached, and the sheer quantity of her output gain her a place in the history of travel."
Price: $250.00