— Picturesque Europe

London, Cassell and Company, Limited , c1876. Leather. A lavishly illustrated set depicting the sceneries and tourist haunts of Europe, engraved by J. W. Whymper and other eminent artists. The complete five-volume Picturesque Europe, a beautifully illustrated series depicting and describing nature and places of interest found across the continent. Published based on their highly successful similar work, Picturesque America. Undated, dated from the British Library. Uniformly bound in half moroccco. Rebacked, with the contemporary spines laid down and hinges reinforced. Each volume is richly illustrated throughout with a frontispiece, engraved title page and eleven steel-engraved plates, as well as many vignettes. From eminent artists including Harry Fenn, J. W. Whymper, P. Skelton and Birket Foster. Collated, complete. Vol I - The British Isles, including Eton, Windsor, Dales of Derbyshire, Thames and English Abbey and Churches. Vol II - The British Isles, including old English homes, the West Coast of Ireland, Cambridge, South Wales, Oxford and more. Vol III - The Continent, including Normandy and Brittany, Venice, Rome, the Rhine and the Pyrenees.  Vol IV - The Continent, including old German towns, Naples, Norway, Spain and Lake of Geneva. Frontispiece, engraved title and eleven steel-engraved plates. Vol V - The Continent, including Sweden, Constantinople, Belgium, the High Alps, Holland and Russia. Frontispiece, engraved title page and eleven steel-engraved plates. Uniformly bound in half moroccco. Rebacked, with the contemporary spines laid down and hinges reinforced. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities and loss to the original back strips, heaviest instances to Vol IV and V. Marks to the boards. With instances of splitting to the joints where original back strips were laid. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spotting concentrated to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Numerous Illustrators. Good .