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A Landscape Book : [By American Artists and American Authors : Sixteen Engravings on Steel ... ]

Weinberg, H Barbara (new Introduction by); James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Bayard Taylor, John Greenleaf Whittier, et al.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.

Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #8094
ISBN: 0824022254

Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1868 edition, New York: G P Putnam & Son. Original subtitle concludes: From Paintings by Cole, Church, Cropsey, Durand, Gignoux, Kensett, Miller, Richards, Smillie, Talbot, Weir. The essays, with the exception of III, V, VIII, XI, and XV, were written for this volume in its original shape, as "The Book of the Picturesque." -- Publishers. Contents: 1. English and American scenery compared / James Fenimore Cooper -- 2. The Catskill Mountains / Washington Irving -- 3. Catterskill Falls / William Cullen Bryant -- 4. The Mountains / Bayard Taylor -- 5. The Adirondack Mountains / Alfred B Street -- 6. Valley of the Housatonic / William Cullen Bryant -- 7. Scaroon or Schroon Lake -- 8. Summer By The Lake-Side / John Greenleaf Whittier -- 9. The Scenery of Pennsylvania / Bayard Taylor -- 10. Wa-wa-yan-dah Lake, New Jersey -- 11. A Summer Ramble / W C Bryant -- 12. West Rock, New Haven / Mary E Field -- 13. Over the Mountains / Henry T Tuckerman -- 14. Church of Holy Innocents, West Point -- 15. Lake George / George S Hillard -- 16. View near Rondout -- 17. Erie Railroad / Bayard Taylor. ; The Art Experience in Late Nineteenth-Century America; Ex-Library; 13, 108 pages.

Price: $49.95