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Lot 273

TAYLOR, Bayard (1825?1878), editor. Picturesque Europe: A D...

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TAYLOR, Bayard (1825?1878), editor. Picturesque Europe: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent. New York: D. Appleton and Company, [1875/79]. 3 volumes. 4to. Additional engraved titles. Illustrated with steel-engraved plates including frontispieces, intertextual woodcuts. Original half navy blue morocco over pebbled boards, upper covers gilt lettered, raised bands with gilt banded tooling, compartments with elegant gilt scrollwork, titling in two compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (ex-library copy from Franklin & Marshall, old adhesive label ghosting to lower compartments, corners lightly marred, spine ends rubbed, library bookplates to front endpapers, few quires starting; generally a clean copy).