PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 42 with Steel Engraving of East Rock New Haven
by Bryant, William Cullen
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Synopsis
Picturesque America was first published by Appleton's as a serial, received semi-monthly by subscribers. Once their subscription was complete, the serials would be bound into a two-volume set, a variety of binding options available for the original 1872 and 1874 books. Picturesque America took readers on a tour of America through art and writing. It included 65 essays written by various authors, and was illustrated by 900 wood and 50 steel engravings. The engravings were done by variety of high skilled artists off of original drawings, mostly composed by artist Harry Fenn, the most prominent landscape illustrator in the US at the time.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38677
- Title
- PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 42 with Steel Engraving of East Rock New Haven
- Author
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- Steel Engravings, East Rock New Haven, The Adirondacks, Ausable River, Greenwich, Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut, Norwalk, Connecticut, Southport, Connecticut
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana and American History; 19th Century; Antiquarian Books;
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