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Picturesque America, or, The land we live in : 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 / with illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists ; edited by William Cullen Bryant.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 168.B89 1872 FOLIO
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890, author.
- Garczynski, R. E., author.
- Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918, author.
- Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894, author.
- Smillie, James David, 1833-1909, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--Pictorial works.
- Québec (Province)--Description and travel.
- Québec (Province).
- Québec (Province)--Pictorial works.
- Travel.
- Québec.
- Genre:
- steel engravings (visual works)
- wood engravings (prints)
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Steel engravings -- New York (N.Y.) -- 1870-1880.
- Wood engravings.
- Advertisements -- New York -- New York -- 19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (viii, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates ; vi, 576 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates) : frontispieces, illustrations, plates ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Picturesque America
- Land we live in
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton and Company, [1872-1874]
- Summary:
- A two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America. Their illustrations provided a tour of nineteenth century America, unspoiled and pastoral, its centers of commerce, ports, architecture and natural treasures.
- Contents:
- Volume I: On the coast of Maine / O.B. Bunce
- St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida / T.B. Thorpe
- Up and down the Columbia / L.J.G. Runkle
- Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee / O.B. Bunce
- Richmond, scenic and historic / J.R. Thompson
- Natural Bridge, Virginia / John Esten Cooke
- Delaware Water-Gap / J.E. Ringwalt
- Mauch Chunk / O.B. Bunce
- On the Savannah / W.V. Thompson
- The French Broad / F.G. de Fontaine
- The White Mountains / Susan N. Carver
- Neversink Highlands / O.B. Bunce
- St. Augustine, Florida / Robert Carter
- Charleston and its suburbs / O.B. Bunce
- Weyer's Cave, Virginia / Sallie A. Brock
- Scenes on the Brandywine / O.B. Bunce
- Cumberland Gap / F.G. de Fontaine
- Watkins Glen / O.B. Bunce
- Scenes in eastern Long Island / O.B. Bunce
- The Lower Mississippi / T.B. Thorpe
- Mackinac / Constance F. Woolson
- Our great national park / O.B. Bunce
- Harper's Ferry / J.C. Cappenter
- Scenes in Virginia / G.W. Bagby
- Newport / T.M. Clarke
- West Virginia / D.H. Strother
- Lake Superior / Constance F. Woolson
- Northern California / R.E. Garczynski
- Niagra / R.E. Garczynski
- Trenton Falls / R.E. Garczynski
- The Yosemite Falls / James D. Smillie
- Providence and vicinity / T.M. Clarke
- South shore of Lake Erie / Constance F. Woolson
- On the coast of California / R.E. Garczynski.
- Volume II: Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson / E.L. Burlingame
- Philadelphia and its suburbs / C.D. Gardette
- Northern New Jersey / W.F. Williams
- Valley of the Connecticut / W.C. Richards
- Baltimore and environs / J.C. Carpenter
- The Catskills / Henry A. Brown
- The Juniata / R.E. Garczynski
- On the Ohio / Constance F. Woolson
- The plains and the sierras / E.L. Burlingame
- The Susquehanna / R.E. Garczynski
- Boston / G.M. Towle
- Lake George and Lake Champlain / O.B. Bunce
- Mount Mansfield / Rossiter Johnson
- Valley of the Housatonic / W.C. Richards
- The Upper Mississippi / R.E. Garczynski
- Valley of the Genesee / W.S. Ward
- St. Lawrence and the Saguenay / W.H. Rideing
- Eastern Shore / G.M. Towle
- The Adirondack region / Robert Carter
- The Connecticut shore of the sound / W.C. Richards
- Lake Memphremagog / W.H. Rideing
- The Mohawk, Albany, and Troy / R.E. Garczynski
- The Upper Delaware / W.H. Rideing
- Water-falls at Cayuga Lake / W.H. Rideing
- The Rocky Mountains / W.H. Rideing
- The Cañons of the Colorado / J.E. Colburn
- Chicago and Milwaukee / O.B. Bunce
- A glance at the northwest / W.H. Rideing
- The Mammoth Cave / W.H. Rideing
- New York and Brooklyn / O.B. Bunce
- Washington / G.M. Towle.
- Notes:
- Added title page, engraved, in each volume.
- The main literary work on this publication was principally done by Oliver B. Bunce, with mulitple entries by R.E. Garczynski, W.H. Rideing, and Constance F. Woolson. The introduction was written and proof-sheets read by W.C. Bryant.
- "Contents" in each volume includes names of authors and artists. "List of engravings on steel" in each volume includes names of artists and engravers.
- Local Notes:
- HSP has: two sets. Set two origina
- Cited in:
- Derby, J.C. Fifty years among authors, books and publishers, page 158
- Sab
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Picturesque America, or, The land we live in.
- OCLC:
- 16957584
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