Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual won the Vancouver Book Award. (Vancouver Art Gallery/Douglas & McIntyre)

Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, a book that gathers work by dozens of B.C. visual and literary artists, has won the City of Vancouver Book Award.

Mayor Gregor Robertson presented the $2,000 prize to editor Scott Steedman at a city council meeting Wednesday. Steedman, a freelance editor and author, shares the award with Vancouver Art Gallery senior curator Bruce Grenville, who chose images for the book.

Visual artists such as Robert Davidson, Emily Carr, Frederick Varley, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Jin-me Yoon, Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall are represented in the book. All the images are from the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery and were displayed in the show of the same name at the gallery from January through April.

The book has writing by Douglas Coupland, Timothy Taylor, Ethel Wilson, Audrey Thomas and Wayson Choy.

The City of Vancouver Book Award is presented annually by the city to the best fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama about Vancouver.

An independent jury called the book "a visually stunning marriage of art and literature" and noted the diversity of the contributors.