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Picturesque America
by William Cullen Bryant
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
New York: D Appleton and Company, 1872-74. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 13" by 10". Various. The complete two volumes of this popular travel text. A beautifully illustrated series which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal. The volumes describe and illustrate the scenery of America. The layout and concept is similar to the previously published Picturesque Europe. With nine hundred vignette and full page wood engravings alongside fifty steel engravings across both volumes. Collated, complete. The engravings display the work of some of the best American landscape painters of the nineteenth century. The work is primarily Henry Fenn's and his friend Douglas Woodward. However other artists include John Frederick Kensett, James David Smillie, Thomas Moran, Granville Perkins and dozens more. Edited by romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, also known as the editor for the New York Evening Post. This text is thought to have had a profound influence of the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States. In full morocco bindings with gilt stamping to the boards and spines. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities, joints and spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with some scattered spotting throughout. Very Good
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
- Rooke Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LTH22-A-3
- Title
- Picturesque America
- Author
- William Cullen Bryant
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1872-74
- Size
- 13" by 10"
- Keywords
- Travel Illustrations America Illustrations
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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