Green-Wood Illustrated.

Book. In Highly Finished Line Engraving, From Drawings Taken on the Spot, by James Smillie. With Descriptive Notices by Nehemiah Cleaveland. New York: R. Martin, 1847. Folio, original elaborate pictorial gilt morocco. Pp. 94. a.e.g. With engraved frontispiece, extra title, and 17 plates of views. Narrow damp stain in upper right corner of title and occasionally to blank margins within. Some marginal rubbing to binding. A very good sound copy. First edition. In Brooklyn, one of the great landscape cemeteries. Smillie's views capture perfectly the period's romantic sensibilities and formal preoccupation with death. A decent copy, the elaborate pictorial gilt binding in bright condition..