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Click here to see our other books!Picturesque AmericaWilliam Cullen Bryant1872-74D Appleton and Company : New York13\" by 10\"viii, 568pp; vi, 576pp
SUMMARY
The complete two volumes of this popular travel text.
Fine Binding,First Edition,Leather Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs2 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
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.
CONDITION
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.
Overall Condition: Very Good
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Overall Condition
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leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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