Picturesque Europe: A Delineation By Pen and Pencil of The Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent. Three Volumes

New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1875. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. F First Edition. H Hard Cover. Good. First edition of this three volume set bound in publisher's three quarter warm brown morocco leather over brown pebbled cloth, decorative cover lettering in gilt, slightly raised spine bands with gilt lettering, compartments ruled in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, white moire-textured endpapers, 488 + 460 + 491 pages. With around three hundred engravings per volume, plus accompanying text, this Victorian era set provided those at home to view sights they had never seen before, or perhaps provided a preview to a European trip in the Grand Tour tradition. Some rubbing to the edges with rubthrough at lower corners, a few scuffs but no spine chipping, good hinges, sound text blocks, light to moderate foxing to frontis plates, engraved titles and title pages, some very light occasional foxing to other plates, mainly near the far top edges, pages clean, crisp, and free from names or other markings.