Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1872-4).
Price: $800.00
Hardcover. First edition. Two volumes. Tall quartos. Each measuring approximately 10½" x 13". viii, 568; , vi, 576pp. Heavily illustrated. Half leather and pebbled cloth gilt. Binding with modest general wear, opening and closing (blank) page spreads modestly foxed, plates and adjacent leaves very lightly foxed, final handful of leaves of Volume II with a small marginal stain at the bottom cornes (and bottom leather corner tip slightly discolored), very good and sound.
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William Cullen Bryant
birth name: William Cullen Bryant
born: 11/3/1794
died: 6/12/1878
Biography
Poet of nature, best remembered for Thanatopsis, and editor for 50 years of the New York Evening Post. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore