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
by Bryant, William Cullen
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Volume I:
· On the Coast of Maine
· St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida
· Up and Down the Columbia
· Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee
· Richmond, Scenic and Historic
· Natural Bridge, Virginia
· Delaware Water-Gap
· Mauch Chunk
· On the Savannah
· The French Broad
· The White Mountains
· Neversink Highlands
· St. Augustine, Florida
· Charleston and Its Suburbs
· Weyer's Cave, Virginia
· Scenes on the Brandywine
· Cumberland Gap
· Watkins Glen
· Scenes on Eastern Long Island
· The Lower Mississippi
· Mackinac
· Our Great National Park
· Harper's Ferry
· Scenes in Virginia
· Newport
· West Virginia
· Lake Superior
· Northern California
· Niagara
· Trenton Falls
· The Yosemite Falls
· Providence and Vicinity
· South Shore of Lake Erie
· On the Coast of California.
Volume II:
· Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson
· Philadelphia and its Suburbs
· Northern New Jersey
· Valley of the Connecticut
· Baltimore and Environs
· The Catskills
· The Juniata
· On the Ohio
· The Plains and the Sierras
· The Susquehanna
· Boston
· Lake George and Lake Champlain
· Mount Mansfield
· Valley of the Housatonic
· The Upper Mississippi
· Valley of the Genesee
· St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
· Eastern Shore
· The Adirondack Region
· The Connecticut Shore of the Sound
· Lake Memphremagog
· The Mohawk, Albany and Troy
· The Upper Delaware
· Water-Falls at Cayuga Lake
· The Rocky Mountains
· The Canons of the Colorado
· Chicago and Milwaukee
· A Glance at the Northwest
· The Mammoth Cave
· New York and Brooklyn
· Washington.
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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- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14542
- 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
- Author
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Illustrator
- First edition of Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant.
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- first edition Picturesque Americana, Picturesque America, limited edition America Picturesque
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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