WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker; W.H. Bartlett.
American Scenery; Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature.
First Edition of Nathaniel Parker Willis' American Scenery; illustrated by William Bartlett
London: George Virtue, 1840.
$4,200.00
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Item Number: RRB-148908
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First edition of this illustrated portfolio of views of stunning American scenes. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tolling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and floral detailing to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece to volume one, and illustrated with 117 engraved plates from drawings by William Henry Bartlett. In very good condition, bookplates to the front pastedowns.
American Scenery (1840), authored by Nathaniel Parker Willis and illustrated by the British artist William Henry Bartlett, represents one of the most influential early attempts to define and disseminate a distinctly American landscape aesthetic. Combining Willis’s romantic prose with Bartlett’s finely detailed engravings, the work offered readers in both the United States and Europe an idealized vision of American natural beauty, from the Hudson River Valley to Niagara Falls.
American Scenery; Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature.
$4,200.00
In Stock