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8vo. 5.75 x 7.6 in. [16 leaves (unpaginated).], sepia-tinted lithographed images, bound leporello accordion style, w/ 68 different images, all w/ white & red borders. Embossed pebbled red publisher's cloth, gilt lettering front cover, blind embossed raised borders (very minor shelfwear, 1 leaf w/ lifting from facing litho, 1 very minor closed tear), still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully printed and illustrated souvenir book issued by the noted British Columbia printing firm which operated from 1885 to 1888 in Victoria and Vancouver, BC. The views include the Victoria harbour, the Fraser River Lighthouse, birds-eye views of New Westminster, Vancouver Coal Mining Co.'s Shaft No. 1 in Nanaimo, the dockyards at Esquimalt, Native American carvings, totem poles, and tribes people, along with views of Sitka, Alaska. Ferguson partnered with Pearson, Robson & Hart in May, 1886 to form the British Columbia Printing Co., who intended to establish themselves as the leading stationer printers in the province, but due to the destruction of the company's Vancouver branch by fire June 13, 1886, and then on Sept. 1, 1886 in Victoria, but even though the company reconstituted, and continued with their contract to print the West Shore Magazine locally, as well as Canadian Pacific Railway literature, the firm only survived until November, 1888 when Ferguson returned to Winnipeg to open a book and stationery store. Worldcat locates 2 copies (UBC, WSU); See: Lana Okerlund, British Columbia Stationery and Printing Company, A Most Agreeable Place, History of Booksellers and Stationers in British Columbia (Oct. 3, 2017); The West Shore, Vol. 1, Vol. 13 (1887), p. 496.