BRYANT, William Cullen.
Picturesque America;
Picturesque America;
or, the land we live in.
Stock Code 116991
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1872-74.
The text was written by William Cullen Bryant (1794- 1878), a fireside poet and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, and serves as a love letter to America and its vistas. Bryant was highly influential in his day, being considered pivotal in the election of Lincoln as President, and celebrated widely as one of the greats of American poetry in the nineteenth century.
First edition; 2 vols, 4to (33 x 27 cm); 49 steel engraved plates including frontispieces and additional titles, 100s of further in-text wood engravings, occasional light foxing to margins only; publisher's half brown morocco, upper boards lettered in gilt, spines lettered in gilt in six compartments, all edges gilt, extremities a little worn, a very good set; viii, 568; vi, 576pp.
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