William Cullen Bryant [editor] - Picturesque America: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1894. Cloth. A smart four volume set of this pictorial guide to America, with illustrations of nature across the United States. Complete in four volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, ten steel-engraved plates, and many in-text wood engravings. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven steel-engraved plates, and many in-text wood engravings. Volume three is illustrated with a frontispiece, thirteen steel-engraved plates, and many in-text wood engravings. Volume four is illustrated with a frontispiece, nine steel-engraved plates, and many in-text wood engravings. Collated complete. A study of the United States of America with pen and pencil, illustrating the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, waterfalls, shorts, canyons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features. With chapters on the lower Mississippi, Cumberland Gap, Niagara Falls, the Golden Gate, Yellowstone, Mount Shasta, the Catskills, Lake George, the Adirondack Woods, the Rocky Mountains, and more. Illustrated by eminent American artists. Edited by William Cullen Bryant, an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. With a classified catalogue of Cassell & Company's publications to each volume. In the original full cloth binding with gilt decoration. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor fraying to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spines with small splits to the cloth and light loss to the spine of volume four. A sticker to the spine of volume one. Hinges starting but firm to volumes one, two, and three. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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