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BEYER, Edward (1820-1865). Album of Virginia. [Richmond:] W. Loeillot in Berlin and Rau & Son in Dresden for Beyer, [1857]-1858.
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BEYER, Edward (1820-1865). Album of Virginia. [Richmond:] W. Loeillot in Berlin and Rau & Son in Dresden for Beyer, [1857]-1858.
Oblong 2o (422 x 620mm). Hand-colored tinted lithographic title and 40 hand-colored lithographic views after Beyer. (Short marginal tear in title, and one other plate, some occasional pale mostly marginal spotting.) Loose in modern linen portfolio, linen solander box.
A splendid album of lithographic views of early Virginia, produced by a German artist resident in Virginia from about 1854-56. Howes cites an 1856 issue, which must be a ghost as no such copy of it is in NUC or otherwise known. A smaller-format edition of descriptive text was published in Richmond in 1857. The title-page vignettes include Monticello and Mount Vernon and there are scernes of the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge Country, Harper's Ferry, Kanawha Fall, Old Point Comfort, James River Canal, spelunking scenes in Weyer's Cave, and resorts and natural springs such as Stribling Springs, White Sulphur Spring and Hot Springs. Beyer was a graduate of the Dusseldorf Academy of Art and first traveled to America in 1848. He settled first in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and visited Virginia in 1854 and then stayed there in 1856-57. Howes B-413; Sabin 5125 (1857).
Oblong 2o (422 x 620mm). Hand-colored tinted lithographic title and 40 hand-colored lithographic views after Beyer. (Short marginal tear in title, and one other plate, some occasional pale mostly marginal spotting.) Loose in modern linen portfolio, linen solander box.
A splendid album of lithographic views of early Virginia, produced by a German artist resident in Virginia from about 1854-56. Howes cites an 1856 issue, which must be a ghost as no such copy of it is in NUC or otherwise known. A smaller-format edition of descriptive text was published in Richmond in 1857. The title-page vignettes include Monticello and Mount Vernon and there are scernes of the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge Country, Harper's Ferry, Kanawha Fall, Old Point Comfort, James River Canal, spelunking scenes in Weyer's Cave, and resorts and natural springs such as Stribling Springs, White Sulphur Spring and Hot Springs. Beyer was a graduate of the Dusseldorf Academy of Art and first traveled to America in 1848. He settled first in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and visited Virginia in 1854 and then stayed there in 1856-57. Howes B-413; Sabin 5125 (1857).