Added engraved title pages with tissue guards. The main literary work on this publication was done by Oliver B. Bunce. The introduction was written and proof-sheets read by W.C. Bryant. cf. J.C. Derby's "Fifty years among authors." "The title-page and preface for volume one will be found in part first; the title-page of volume second, the table of contents and list of steel illustrations for volume one, and table of contents and list of steel illustrations for volume two, will all be voundy accompanying part forty-eight."--Part 48, page [2] of cover.

Volume I: On the coast of Maine / O. B. Bunce --
St. John's and Ocklawaha Rivers, Florida / T. B. Thorpe --
Up and down the Columbia / L. J. G. Runkle --
Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee / O. B. Bunce --
Richmond, scenic and historic / J. R. Thompson --
Natural Bridge, Virginia / John Esten Cooke --
Delaware Water-Gap / J. E. Ringwalt --
Mauch Chunk / O. B. Bunce --
On the Savannah / W. V. Thompson --
The French Broad / F. G. de Fontaine --
The White Mountains / Susan N. Carver --
Neversink Highlands / O. B. Bunce --
St. Augustine, Florida / Robert Carter --
Charleston and its suburbs / O. B. Bunce --
Weyer's Cave, Virginia / Sallie A. Brock --
Scenes on the Brandywine / O. B. Bunce --
Cumberland Gap / F. G. de Fontaine --
Watkins Glen / O. B. Bunce --
Scenes in eastern Long Island / O. B. Bunce --
The Lower Mississippi / T. B. Thorpe --
Mackinac / Constance F. Woolson --
Our great national park / O. B. Bunce --
Harper's Ferry / J. C. Cappenter --
Scenes in Virginia / G. W. Bagby --
Newport / T. M. Clarke --
West Virginia / D. H. Strother --
Lake Superior / Constance F. Woolson --
Northern California / R. E. Garczynski --
Niagra / R. E. Garczynski --
Trenton Falls / R. E. Garczynski --
The Yosemite Falls / James D. Smillie --
Providence and vicinity / T. M. Clarke --
South shore of Lake Erie / Constance F. Woolson --
On the coast of California / R. E. Garczynski.

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