Picturesque Europe

The first two volumes cover the British Isles and the other three cover Continental Europe. Many of the engravings were done by well known artists such as J.W. Whymper and Birket Foster.This title was originally published in the 1870's by Appleton.

The British Isles volumes include Oxford and Cambridge, Wales and the West Coast of Ireland. The European volumes include France, Italy, Sweden, Turkey and Russia. This complete five-volume set is a beautifully illustrated series depicting and describing nature and places of interest found across the continent. This title was originally published in the 1870's by Appleton and was published based on their highly successful similar work, Picturesque America.

5 volumes, 4to (32 x 26 cm); 5 frontispieces, illustrated with numerous steel engravings and woodcuts in text, some minor spotting throughout, inner hinges weak in the first two vols; bound in publisher's original green gilt decorated cloth, all edges gilt, slightly worn at extremities; otherwise a very good set,.