2 vols. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. With 49 steel-engraved plates, incl. frontispieces and added pictorial title-pages, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings, some full page. (4to) 32x24.5 cm (12½x9½"), original three-quarter dark brown morocco and pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An essential edition to any 19th century Americana library. Noteworthy for the numerous fine steel-engraved plates; the artists represented include Thomas Moran Harry Fenn James D. Smillie, J.D. Woodward, Granville Perkins and others.
2 vols. viii, 568; vi, 576 pp. With 49 steel-engraved plates, incl. frontispieces and added pictorial title-pages, with tissue guards; numerous wood engravings, some full page. (4to) 32x24.5 cm (12½x9½"), original three-quarter dark brown morocco and pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An essential edition to any 19th century Americana library. Noteworthy for the numerous fine steel-engraved plates; the artists represented include Thomas Moran Harry Fenn James D. Smillie, J.D. Woodward, Granville Perkins and others.
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