An Artist Records the California Missions

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Neuerburg. Oblong 4to. xl, 100pp. Biographical introduction, index. 66 illustrations plus seven full-page color plates (3 tipped on). Two-tone cloth, sides decorated in a California Mission wallpaper pattern, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Henry Chapman Ford began a book on the California Missions which his death prevented him from finishing. Published here for the first time are his sections on the individual missions and his chapter on the California Mission Indians, as well as reproductions of his paintings. With the original prospectus laid in. [Harlan, The Two Hundredth Book: 192]..