The Home book of the picturesque: or, American scenery, art, and literature
By: comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper, and others. (1852) A facsimile reproduction, with an introd., by Motley F. Deakin.
Contributors: Deakin, Motley F., ed.
Publisher: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Gainesville, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Landscape painting -- United States; United States -- Description and travel
Notes: Original t.p. has imprint: New York, G.P. Putnam, 1852.
Table of contents: title: Scenery and mind, by E.L. Magoon.; title: View near Rondout.; title: American and European scenery compared, by J.F. Cooper.; title: The Catskill Mountains, by W. Irving.; title: A dissolving view, by Miss Cooper.; title: The scenery of Pennsylvania, by B. Taylor.; title: The Highland Terrace, above West Point, by N.P. Willis.; title: Wa-wa-yan-dah Lake, New Jersey.; title: Over the mountains, or the Western pioneer, by H.T. Tuckerman.; title: West Rock, New Haven, by M.E. Field.; title: The Erie Railroad, by B. Taylor.; title: The Church of the Holy Innocents, West Point.; title: The valley of the Housatonic, by W.C. Bryant.; title: The Adirondack Mountains, by A.B. Street.; title: Schroon Lake.; title: Art in the United States, by G.W. Bethune.