Publisher:
London, George Virtue: 1840
All plates, including frontis portrait, two half title, and map (of the Northeastern United States), hand-colored by a meticulous contemporary hand, or a total of 120 plates hand-colored. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. iv, 140, iv, 106 pp, with first volume also including the hand-colored frontis portrait of Bartlett, the map, and 66 plates, the second volume, 53 plates. Bartlett (1809-1854) was a renowned English painter or architectural and topographical views and panoramas who did similar books on such countries as Switzerland and Canada, all of which are epitomize the steel engraved view books of ...
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