Falls of Niagara
Subtitle: being a complete guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighbourhood of the great cataract : with views taken from sketches by Washington Friend, esq., and from photographs.
Contributors: Friend, Washington F., ca. 1820-1886; Sigourney, L. H. 1791-1865.; Thomas Nelson & Sons
Series: Nelsons' Views of American scenery
Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons; James Campbell
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Pictorial works.; Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Guidebooks; Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Poetry
Genres: Guidebooks; Poetry
Notes: Includes "Index.": p. [v]-vi

Colour plates are "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks. For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.

Plates are with captions.  Most are with imprint: "From a Photograph".  Three are with imprint: "W. Friend delt.".

Includes map entitled "Niagara River, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario".

Includes "Poetical Lines.": p. [61]-64, including "Niagara" by "Sigourney".

MASS copy: Bound in light purple vertical wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with title in border with series title: "Nelsons' Views of American scenery".  With pale yellow glazed endpapers.  With bookplate: "Ex Libris  Philip Greely Brown". Lacking p. [1-2?] at beginning.