The rural cemeteries of America / [illustrated in a series of picturesque and monumental views in highly finished line engraving from drawings taken on the spot by James Smillie].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cleaveland, N. (Nehemiah), 1796-1877.

Smillie, James, 1807-1885.

Walter, Cornelia W. (Cornelia Wells), 1815-1898.

Books in Parts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--United States.

Cemeteries.

United States.

Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.).

Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown and Cambridge, Mass.).

Genre:

Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Physical Description:

21 parts : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Green-wood

Mount Auburn

Place of Publication:

New York : R. Martin, [1850]

Contents:

Green-wood / by N. Cleaveland ; illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by James Smillie

Mount Auburn / illustrated in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot, by James Smillie ; with descriptive notices by Cornelia W. Walter.

Notes:

Title from front wrapper of pt. 1; statement of responsibility from publisher's advertisement on back wrapper of pt. 1.

Date from imprint on letter-press t.p. of Mount Auburn (issued along with added engraved t.p. in pt. 10).

Parts issued in illustrated paper wrappers printed with publisher's advertisements.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has pts. 1, 7, 10-11, 15, 18-20 only; pt. 10 wanting front wrapper; pt. 11 wanting front and back wrappers; pt. 15 without plates; letter-press t.p. for Green-wood wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has 4 detached plates, including engraved t.p. for Green-wood, laid in.

Contains:

Green-wood.

Mount Auburn.

OCLC:

259243585