[Sarah (Sallie) Elizabeth Ware?]. Among the Mountains. Second Edition. [Bath, Maine,] 1865

[WHITE MOUNTAINS]

[SARAH (SALLIE) ELIZABETH WARE?]. AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. SECOND EDITION. [BATH, MAINE: PRINTED BY GEORGE EVANS NEWMAN,] 1865

8vo (9 x 5 3/4 in.; 227 x 146 mm). 17 albumen photographs mounted on interleaved stiff stock; occasional minor spotting. Original pebbled morocco, spine gilt in 6 compartments, covers with decorative gilt borders, gilt dentelles, edges gilt; rubbed at joints, corners. 

Very rare. Not in Bent. Only two other copies known (Dartmouth, AAS).

This is probably the first and only edition, despite "Second Edition" appearing on the title and copyright dated 1864, both likely referring to manuscript. Privately printed in a very small edition and handsomely bound, presumably for a party of eight from Maine, who made a two-week circuit of the White Mountains.

The book contains early photographs of the White Mountains, including full-page landscape and view of boardinghouse in Bethel, Maine, and smaller scenic views and portraits. Judging from internal evidence, the text was almost surely written by Sallie Ware (b. 1838) of Portland and edited by Edwin Reed (1835–1908), future mayor of Bath, shipowner, author on the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. Both were members of the party. Printer G. E. Newman was a Bath newspaper publisher and printer.