| has gloss | eng: Picturesque Europe was a three-volume, lavishly illustrated set of books published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. of London, Paris and New York in 1875. The books depicted tourist haunts in Europe, with text descriptions and steel and wood engravings by eminent artists of the time, such as Harry Fenn, William Henry James Boot, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823-1875), Henry Towneley Green (1836-1899), Myles Birkett Foster, John Mogford (1821-1885), David Hall McKewan (1816-1875), William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883), Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835-1900 and Joseph B. Smith (1798-1876). A companion set, Picturesque America, was published about the same time and dealt with popular places in the United States. |
