Picturesque America 1872

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Author: Bryant, William Cullen, editor
Title: Picturesque America, or, the Land We Live in. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country.
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: [1872-74]
Description:

2 vols. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. With 49 steel-engraved plates, incl. frontispieces and added pictorial title-pages, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings, some full page. (4to) 32x24.5 cm (12½x9½"), original three-quarter dark brown morocco and pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

Noteworthy for the numerous fine steel-engraved plates; the artists represented include Thomas Moran, Harry Fenn, James D. Smillie, J.D. Woodward, Granville Perkins and others.
Condition Report: General light wear to bindings, rubbing to extremities; early ownership inscriptions on front pastedowns; very good.