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Frontis and 39 plates.  Additionally this copy has been extra-illustrated with twenty California manuscript and printed ephemeral items, as issued by the publisher.  (Large 8vo), tan linen spine, blue-green paper boards, printed paper label, untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Second Edition, considerably expanded from the first of 1889; one of fifty-five special numbered copies (of 250), signed by the publisher and editor.

The "El Dorado Edition" of William Heath Davis's famous account of California, first published in 1889 as Sixty Years in California and here expanded and elaborately illustrated. John Howell Books also produced this special extra-illustrated issue with ephemeral and manuscript items in an issue of 250 copies, with sub-limitations within the 250: The Argonaut edition, the Pioneer edition, the California Collectors' edition, the El Dorado edition, etc. Davis (1822-1909) was in California well before the invasion of the gringos, and his "collected reminiscent articles [are a] valuable source book" - Hart, Companion to California.