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[THE ANSONIA]. Group of 10 Legal Briefs on the Various Legal Battles Over the Creation of New York’s Legendary Ansonia Apartment Building. [New York: 1910s]. 4to. Approximately 330 x 194 mm. Typewritten briefs on white paper, rectos only, bound together in library binding of full light-green cloth, spine with black and burgundy gilt morocco lettering labels and a printed shelf label (spine sunned, worn, binding worn, sunned, lightly soiled, ffep loose yet present, inkstamps and manuscript note of the library of the New York bar association on the first pages of the briefs, as well as dated stamps (1923)). ONE OF ONLY A FEW COPIES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS EXTANT. Briefs mainly Francis Brothers & Jellett, Inc., Plaintiff, against Tiffany Studios, impleaded with Onward Construction Company, Defendants. These briefs chronicle the legal wrangling between Francis Brothers and Tiffany Studios about payments and work done to create the Ansonia Apartment Hotel (later the Ansonia Apartments). Included are invoices, estimates, incorporation documents related to the Ansonia.