Name/Title
Picturesque America Volume 1Entry/Object ID
2017.64.1Description
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States
Volume I engravings
On the Coast of Maine
St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers
Up and Down the Columbia
Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee
Richmond, Scenic and Historic
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Delaware Water-Gap
Mauch Chunk
On the Savannah
The French Broad
The White Mountains
Neversink Highlands
St. Augustine, Florida
Charleston and its Suburbs
Weyer's Cave, Virginia
Scenes on the Brandywine
Cumberland Gap
Watkins Glen
Scenes on Eastern Long Island
The Lower Mississippi
Mackinac
Our Great National Park
Harper's Ferry
Scenes in Virginia
Newport
West Virginia
Lake Superior
Northern California
Niagara
Trenton Falls
The Yosemite Falls
Providence and Vicinity
South Shore of Lake Erie
On the Coast of California; PHYSDESC: bound in red and blue leather with gilt title, cover decoration, accents, and page edges. Interior cover and frontispiece covered in red, white, and black, decorated pages. L. 13", W. 10.5", D. 2.5"Collection
BooksCreate Date
May 25, 2017
