Bidspirit auction | First Ed. v.1 PICTURESQUE AMERICA

First Ed. v.1 PICTURESQUE AMERICA William Cullen Bryant 1872 - First Edition Volume 1 of the important post-civil war PICTURESQUE AMERICA, edited by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | First Edition & First Printing - Published: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872, 1874 | 568 pp.+ 49 Steel Engravings | Fully bound brown leather binding with spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, embossed decoration to front, back and spine; gilt lettering on spine and cover, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page. Illustrated with 49 excellent steel-engraved tissue-protected plates on thick stock, in addition to hundreds of steel and wood engraved in-text illustrations | Approx. Dimensions: Large Heavy 4to 13” x 11” | Full Title: PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN. A DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, LAKES, FORESTS, WATER-FALLS, SHORES, CANONS, VALLEYS, CITIES, AND OTHER PICTURESQUE FEATURES OF OUR COUNTRY | William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.