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Author:

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.

Title:

New York / by James Fenimore Cooper, being an introduction to an unpublished manuscript, by the author, entitled "The towns of Manhattan."

Publisher:

Printed by Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs for the publisher William Farquhar Payson,

Copyright Date:

1930

Description:

x, [4], 63, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

New York (N.Y.)
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Bulmer.

Other Authors:

Fox, Dixon Ryan, 1887-1945, ed.

Notes:

Title vignette: portrait of author. Half-title, p. [xi]: Introductory note, from the initial instalment in "The Spirit of the Fair", New York, April 5th, 1864. Edited by Dixon R. Fox. Includes one plate, incorporated in pagination, with printed guardsheet: "Broadway in 1850: at Vesey Street, showing Barnum's Museum, St. Paul's and the Astor House. A full-tone reproduction by The Meriden Gravure Company. From a contemporary lithograph, published by Goupil & Company, after a drawing from life by Aug. Kollner. Eno Collection, New York Public Library." Originally published, April 1864, in "The Spirit of the fair," a daily magazine issued by the United States Sanitary Commission in connection with the Metropolitan Fair held in New York. "This edition, hand-set in Bulmer type, hand printed on Whitchurch hand-made paper by the Stratford Press in New York, is limited to 765 copies ..." "This copy is number 621." DLC

LCCN:

30023875

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)