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Picturesque America, 1872
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, Cañons, Valleys, Cities, and other Picturesque Features of Our Country
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: [1872-1874]
Description:

2 volumes. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. With 49 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and additional pictorial title pages, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings, some full page. (Folio) 32x24 cm (12¾x9½"), full blind-stamped brown morocco, lettered in gilt on front and spine; all edges gilt with gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. First Edition.

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.

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Condition
Light wear and rubbing to bindings, particularly extremities; hinges reinforced with archival tape, faint age-toning to pages, occasional foxing; very good.
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