Sunset City and Sunset Scenes [cover title]

San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1894 Book. Fine. Hardcover. [MIDWINTER FAIR]. Oblong quarto. 10x13 inches. Three parts bound together. Illustrated with 8 full-page lithographed color plates by Dickman-Jones Co. of San Francisco, plus the full set of 24 full-page lithographed color plates by H. S. Crocker Co. plus over 213 full-page black & white photographs with extensive descriptive text, including 13 (of 14) double-page panoramas. Publisher's binding of three-quarter brown morocco, darker cloth sides, gilt lettering and pictorial element on cloth cover, gilt-lettered spine. Outer hinges and spine ends rubbed, 3 corners show light wear. A fine, clean copy. First edition. With the bookplate of Thomas Wayne Norris and included in the famous Norris Catalogue. An incredibly scarce tile, with the full complement of 24 full-page color lithographs (Series I & II) of scenes and buildings at the Midwinter Fair, also issued by H. S. Crocker Co., and the addition of the souvenir grouping, Glimpses of the Midwinter Fair, issued by Dickman-Jones Co. to their customers, with 8 full-page color lithographs of the Fair (bound in with its original wrappers). Sunset City and Sunset Scenes is usually found only with the Taber black & white reproductions. We have never had a copy bound with the full series of color lithographs although over the years we've seen a few odd plates. The large number of black and white photographic reproductions include a number of views of the buildings and grounds of the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park; they are interspersed with select views of the natural wonders of the State. Nearly all the photographs are by Isaiah W. Taber, official photographer of the Fair. The text for the non-Fair images was written by J. M. Hutchings; the twenty-four lithographs issued by Crocker were drawn by the famous western artist, H. W. Hansen. [Norris, Norris Catalogue (this copy): 3493; Rocq, Glimpses of the Midwinter Fair: 11355; Rocq, Sunset City: 11359; no Auction Records that include the color plates]. .