Black Dome Press specializes in high quality books (cloth and trade paper) on the history, art, culture, folklore and folk art of upstate New York -- the Hudson Valley, Catskill Mountains, Shawangunks, Albany Capital Region and Saratoga -- the lands of Rip Van Winkle, John Burroughs, Thomas Cole & the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Additional subjects include: early photography, nature & hiking, Dutch and English exploration & colonialism, Native Americans, homesteading, steamboats, turnpikes & railroads, the grand hotels, quilting, genealogy, the Civil War, American Revolution, colonial life, forest history, architecture, old mills & tanneries.