California and the gold mania
By: by Thomas De Quincey ; illustrated with sketches from "Punch".
Series: California classics ;; no. 3; California classics (Colt Press) ;; no. 3.
Publisher: Colt Press
Published: 1945
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- History -- 1846-1850.
Notes: "This essay is reprinted from Ticknor, Reed, and Fields' edition of De Quincey's Letters to a young man and other papers, published at Boston in 1854. It appeared first in Hogg's weekly instructor, an English periodical, in 1852. The 1853 postscript was added to a later edition, from which the Ticknor ... text was taken"--Prelim. p. [3].
"500 copies ... issued"--Colophon.