THE HUDSON: From The Wilderness To The Sea
-Fine Leather Binding with Fore-Edge Painting-
1866
First Edition
Virtue and Yorston [New York]
8vo (464 pages, 306 wood engravings, steel engraved frontispiece)
Hardcover [Full gilt ornamented brown leather]
Item Number: 13643
$1,200.00
Description
A glorious leatherbound First Edition of this beautiful work, all edges gilt, with a stunning fore-edge painting entitled “Daybreak on the Hudson,” exquisitely rendered and still quite vivid. There is some edgewear at the spine and discreet former-owner names and dates in ink on the front free endpapers, else fine.