Views in New York and its Environs from Accurate, Characteristic, and Picturesque Drawings, Taken on the Spot, Expressly for this Work, by Dakin, Architect; with Historical, Topographical, and Critical Illustrations

Fay, Theodore S

New York, Peabody; London: O. Rich, 1831

First edition, parts 1-6 only (of 8).  4to. Bound in contemporary leather-backed, marbled boards.  Good binding and cover. Engraved title-page with vignette.  Double-page engraved map of "The City of New York" by William Hooker, with hand-colored outline. Engraved title, 22 engravings on 11 plates, 50 pp.  Browning (especially to the tissue paper guards) and spotting throughout. Early signature of C.A. Van Heck on front end page.  Rarely found complete, the work was issued in parts over a number of years.  The work was originally intended to be issued in ten parts, of which only eight were actually issued. Only first six are present in this collection.  "The Peabody prints offer fascinating glimpses of New York in the 1830s" and form "a lively document of a city in the making" (Deak).   Refs: BAL 5686; Deak 399; Sabin 54712; Howes F64; Stokes 3:599-603.   

Present here are views of: New York Harbor (Manhattan from Governor's Island), Broadway from the Park; Bowling Green, Residence of Philip Hone; City Hall, Navy Yard; Leroy Place, Shot Tower; Elysian Fields, Hotel Trinity & Grace Churches; Lunatic Asylum, Merchant Room Exchange, Wall Street; Washington Institute, Hudson River from Hoboken; Coffee House Slip and Park Theatre; Broad Street, Holt's New Hotel; Webb's Congress Hall, Merchant Exchange, Wall Street, Masonic Hall, Broadway; Pearl Street House & Ohio Hotel, Deaf and Dumb Asylum.