Picturesque America. Volume 1. Part 1

Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton and #39;s Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant and #40;1794-1878 and #41;, who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work and #39;s essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.