Bunce, and that the preface was written and the whole edited by Bryant who, in a letter cited by BAL, says: "I do not remember that I was ever more weary of any literary task.
Publisher’s deluxe brown morocco, raised bands with titles in gilt and decorative design stamped in black on spines, black stamped covers, title and artist’s palette in gilt on front covers. Folio, two volumes, viii, 568pp vi, 576pp. bound volume with twenty-five steel engravings and. Description First edition of Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant. BAL 1732, noting that the literary work was done by Oliver B. Picturesque America, or the Land We Live In: Volume 2, 1874. Stately testimony to the American fascination with American landscape, and a major link in the literary tradition that connects William Bartram with John McPhee. a very good, sound set, in publisher's half black morocco, gilt-lettered spines several scratches and a bit of rubbing, but overall a pretty nice copy in a firm binding.
Picturesque america plus#
II retains the Broadway address) 2 volumes, large 4to, complete with engraved frontispiece and title-pp., plus 47 steel-engraved plates and 838 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, 321 of them full-p. The second of two editions noted in BAL, with Bryant's name on the title and at the end of the preface, but clearly a later issue with the Appleton address on the title page of vol.
With illustrations on steel and wood by eminent artists.
A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, canyons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. PICTURESQUE AMERICA or, the land we live in.
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