Fine Books & Manuscripts

[NEW YORK CITY] BLUNT, Edmund March (1770–1862). The Picture of New York; or, the stranger’s guide to the commercial metropolis of the United States. New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1825. 12mo. xv, [1, 13]–306 pp. Illustrated with 3 engraved plates by C.A. Busby, intertextual woodcut illustrations; lacking map. Original printed paper wrappers encased in full red Levant with a central gilt device of the Seal of New York on both covers, raised bands, two compartments titled in gilt, all edges gilt, broad gilt dentelle turn-ins, marbled endpapers, GILT STAMP-SIGNED BY CHAMBOLLE-DURU BINDERY (spine darkened, front board detached but present; a tight and clean copy). A scarce example of a copy identical in content and typography to Blunt’s 1817 edition under the title “Blunt’s strangers guide to the city of New York”. The copyright notice found in that edition has been removed from the back of the title page, and the numbering of p. xvi does not appear in this edition. An “Appendix for 1818” has been added (p. [307]–357).