First Edition 2 Volume Set of the important post-civil war PICTURESQUE AMERICA, edited by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | First Edition & First Printing - Published: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872, 1874 | Complete in 2 volumes, 568 & 576 pp.+ 49 Steel Engravings | Half-bound brown leather binding with cloth boards, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on spine and cover, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page in each volume. Illustrated with 49 excellent steel-engraved tissue-protected plates on thick stock, in addition to hundreds of steel and wood engraved in-text illustrations | Approx. Dimensions: Large Heavy 4to 13" x 11" | Full 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 | William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.