Volume I My most treasured book, The Picturesque St. Lawrence River was published in 1895 in the highest quality format technology of the day allowed. It was inspirational to me for The 1000 Islands, which I hoped might also be prized a hundred years on with a padded hard cover, spot gloss against matte, gold foil and end sheets with maps that show where every picture was taken. Now sold out, I could not have imagined that copies have already been bid up to as much as $400 on eBay.