TAYLOR, BAYARD.
Picturesque Europe:
A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent. 3 vols. New York, D. Appelton and Company, 1875-79. 4to. VI+IV+488; (2)+IV+460; (2)+IV+492 p. With numerous wood engraved views in the text by, among others, Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, E. M. Wimperis, P. Skelton, D. McKewan, J. Mogford, S. Read, J. Chase, W. Leitch, W. H. J. Boot, T. L. Rowbotham, T. D. Scott, E. Wagner, W. L. Jones, E. Senior, C. J. Staniland, C. Emery, C. Johnson, T. Green, W. W. May, J. Harmsworth, and Towneley Green + 3 steel engraved title pages, and 58 (of 60) steel engraved plates with tissue guards, 4 plates are loosely enclosed - Reutlingen; Turnbury Castle; Venice; and Fishing-Boats on the Lagoon, Venice, and they are without the tissue guards and from another copy. 2 plates are lacking - The Bass Rock and The Holstein Gate, Lubeck. Contemp. green half calf with gilt-stamped title on the upper covers. Spine gilt and with 5 raised bands. All edges gilt. Bindings are in nice condition, with only minor rubbing to extremities.
¶ These three volumes includes detailed views of forest scenery, the southern and Cornish coasts of Great Britain, the Derby Dales, English castles, abbeys, and churches, views of Italian lakes, the Alps, the Rhine, Venice, old German towns, and the Alhambra, as well as scenes of Athens and Russia.
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