The MINER'S TEN COMMANDMENTS

by California Letter Sheet, Forty Nine , James Mason. 1818

$2,500 · Offered by Tavistock Books · No longer available

San Francisco: Sun Print. 1853 . 1st separate issue Baird 167; Clifford 180 . 1 sheet of lined, light blue laid paper, folded once vertically. Text printed p. 4, in 3 columns, with a surrounding border of 11 wood engraved vignettes of mining-camp life, as drawn by Harrison Eastman. Eastman's images portray the temptations which the commandments exhort the miners to resist, such as gambling, drinking, staking false claims,

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