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PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 42 with Steel Engraving  of East Rock New Haven

PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 42 with Steel Engraving of East Rock New Haven

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PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 42 with Steel Engraving of East Rock New Haven

by Bryant, William Cullen

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New York: D. Appleton. Good. 1873. First Edition. Paperback. 417-440 pages; Wrappers are edgeworn and separated at spine, steel engraving and other illustrations are clean and in Very Good condition. This is Part 42 of the 48 numbers comprising pages 417 through 440 of the complete work Picturesque America. The individual parts were sent to subscribers in loose gatherings housed in blue printed wrappers as they were published; then subscribers would have them bound to their specifications. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. This fascicule includes (1) a full page (13.5" x 9.75") steel engraving of East Rock New Haven; (2) end of the chapter The Adirondack Region and beginning of The Connecticut Shore of the Sound; (3) three full page woodcuts -- Clearing a Jam at Great Falls of the Ausable; Glimpses of Greenwich, Stamford and and Norwalk; Glimpses of South Norwalk and Southport; and several partial page illustrations from woodcuts. .

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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
Antiquarian Book Shop US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
38677
Title
PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN - Part 42 with Steel Engraving of East Rock New Haven
Author
Bryant, William Cullen
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
D. Appleton
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1873
Keywords
Steel Engravings, East Rock New Haven, The Adirondacks, Ausable River, Greenwich, Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut, Norwalk, Connecticut, Southport, Connecticut
Bookseller catalogs
Americana and American History; 19th Century; Antiquarian Books;

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