AMERICAN SCENERY, ILLUSTRATED by Richards, T. Addison - (1854)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-17. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-17. Paperback. Good.

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New York: George A. Leavitt, 1854. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. While the interior rates very good the cover is moderately worn and faded thus good. All plates with tissue guards are present. .

New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1854 Leather with ornate gilt stamped and embossed designs. 4to. 310 pp. Very good. chips to spine. Extremities worn. Paper worn at the front gutter . Some foxing. Some tissue guards folded or partially detached. All edges gilt. Illustrated in black & white with 32 engravings on steel.. Hardcover.

New York: Leavitt and Alle, 1854. 310pp. plus thirty-two plates (including engraved titlepage). Large octavo. Original publisher's morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Corners bumped and rubbed. Faint dampstaining to lower edge of text, else internally clean. Very good. First edition of a comprehensive tour of 19th- century America. Included are views from the Upper Missouri, the Mississippi, Georgia, and historical sights throughout the original thirteen colonies. The work is patterned on Bartlett's AMERICAN SCENERY, and several plates bear the name of W.H. Bartlett. Curiously, the book is not described in Howes, Hamilton, or Percy Muir's work on Victorian illustrated Books. Richards is known as an illustrator of other works, and was probably responsible for many of the illustrations, while his exuberant prose relieves the gravity of fact with the grace of fiction. SABIN 70958. WRIGHT, II:2030.

hardcover. 32 steel engravings. 310pp. small 4to, full brown elaborately gilt morocco, a.e.g.; (foxing to plates, lightly rubbed, tear in last page with no loss of text). N.Y.: Leavitt & Allen, (1854).<br/><br/> The plates include views of the Lake George area, Mount Vernon, Central Park, the Adirondacks, the Susquehanna River, the Ohio and Missouri rivers, etc.<br/><br/>