The pair received special permission to sketch inside and under the Mosque of Omar (the Dome of the Rock),[7] although Woodward compared the streets of Jerusalem with the "dirtiest alleys of Baltimore".

It included an introduction by Dean Stanley and sections on "Jerusalem" by Charles William Wilson; "Bethlehem and the North of Judaea" by Canon Henry Baker Tristram; and "The Mountains of Judah and Ephraim" by Lt. Claude Reignier Conder.

[13][14] It included steel engravings of Nablus; Mounts Tabor, Hermon, and Lebanon; the Valley of Nazareth; Tiberias; Caesarea Philippi; Damascus's rivers and streets; and Palmyra.

Rogers; "Lydda and Ramleh" and "Philistia" by Lt. Col. Warren; "The South Country of Judaea" by Canon Tristram; "The Southern Borderland and Dead Sea" by Prof. Palmer; and "Mount Hor and the Cliffs of Edom" and "The Covent of St. Catherine" by M.E.

[16][17] It included steel engravings of the Kadisha Gorge; a well at Nazareth; a map of Palestine; Beirut's St George Bay; Sidon; Haifa and Mount Carmel; Caesarea; Jaffa; Hebron; and the entrance to the Valley of Petra.

It included sections on "Sinai" by C. Pickering Clarke and on "The Land of Goshen", "Cairo", "Memphis", "Thebes", and "Edfû and Philae" by Stanley Lane-Poole.

[23] It included chapters on "The Townsfolk", "The Countryfolk", "School and Mosque", "The European Element",[24] and an epilogue which focused largely on the "disastrous results" of Egypt's "vicious training of women" as the primary stumbling block in the way of Egyptian prosperity.

[25] The series was translated into German as Palestine in Picture and Word (Palästina in Bild und Wort) with additional notes by the novelist and Egyptologist Georg Ebers[26] in 1884.