Assembled Set Two Volumes: Picturesque America by Editor William Cullen Bryant cake stand Beads: Width 7-27 mm

Beads: Width 7-27 mm

Paper label (back): Vix ea Nostra Voco (Latin: I scarcely call these things our own)

Floor Grates

1697-1764) | Publisher: John & Josiah Boydell

hooked pulled feather pattern in gold on an opal ground

Assembled Set Two Volumes: Picturesque America by Editor William Cullen Bryant cake stand Beads: Width 7-27 mmDETAILS An antique set of two books capturing the scenery of America. Includes images by some of the best American landscape artists of the 19th century including John Frederick Kensett, James David Smillie, Thomas Moran, and Granville Perkins. This work is historically significant as it was thought to have influenced the growth of tourism and historic preservation in the north and south after the Civil War. TITLE Picturesque America or, The Land we