Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. Missing volume 2. Dimensions are for one volume.

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Condition: Good. 1900. Popular Editions. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Volumes 1, 3, 4 & 5. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Some foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing and marking to boards, with tanning to spines.

Picturesque Europe was a lavishly illustrated set of books published by D. Appleton & Co. in the mid-1870s based on their phenomenally successful Picturesque America. An edited form was reprinted in Europe by Cassell & Co. The books depicted nature and tourist haunts in Europe, with text descriptions and numerous steel and wood engravings. J.W. Whymper was among the engravers and directed the other artists on the project.

Josiah Wood Whymper RI (Ipswich 24 April 1813 – 7 April 1903 Haslemere) was a British wood-engraver, book illustrator and watercolourist.