Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes, and the Head-Waters of the Connecticut, Magalloway, and Androscoggin Rivers, Dixville Notch, Grafton Notch, and Andover, Maine, and Vicinity...

Boston/New York: Lee and Shephard/ Charles T. Dillingham, 1890 Reprint of the 1887 edition (12th edition). Hard cover 12 mo in green publisher's cloth with title blocked in gold to front board and in black to spine, with tan floral end papers, 73 engraved illustrations by various artists, including Nat. Brown, C.W. Reed, M.M. Tidd, F. Myrick, E.H. Garrett, F.C. Hassam, and W.H. Bricher. CONDITION: Lacking foldout Map, otherwise Very Good Minus. Light soiling and rubbing and to boards. Text block edges a bit dusty. A few pages within are soiled, (showing use as a guidebook would.)** Full of vintage advertising, as well as numerous engraved prints, many illustrating the author's methods of transport available for the early tourist. Articles recommend travel routes from Boston, some of the perils of camping, favorable fishing spots and the like.**Captain Charles Alden John Farrar (1842-1893), publisher of this guide, trained as a printer in Boston as a teen, later becoming a newspaper editor. His precocious business talents led him to launch a number of successful business ventures in the western Maine Rangeley Lakes Region beginning in the 1870's. This encompassed a rail link, stage coach and steamboat travel, a number of hotels and incidentals such as this guide book. The State of Maine granted Farrar, and his investors and business associates, a monopoly on travel to, and business in, this area. An interesting case study in nineteenth century vertical integration. Relatively Scarce. Ref:W. Krohn, Bethel Maine "Courier", (2012.). 12th Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus. Illus. by various.