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Oblong 4to. 31, [1]; [104 pp (unpaginated).] Second title in red & black, 8 text photo illustrations, 51 sepia-tinted photo plates. Oatmeal-coloured publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover art photo of Columbia River gorge by Watkins (slight dustsoiling, very slight shelfwear), NF/NF copy, w/ original Friends of Photography membership application laid-in, from the library of Charles H. "Brig" Belvin IV (b. 1937), w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition, thus, of this exceptional photographic work which reproduces all 51 of Watkins' mammoth plate prints from the Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon presenting a unique opportunity to fully appreciate the noted photographer's brief six month period in 1867 documenting the Gorge in his exacting 18 x 22 in. wet plate glass negative process.