John C. Van Dyke - The New New York: A Commentary on the Place and the People

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the development of the contemporary New York. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-five colour plates, and ninety-eight black-and-white plates. Collated complete. An in-depth work on the swiftly expanding city of New York, with chapters on the approach from the sea, streets, sky-scrapers, Fifth Avenue, the bridges, water-ways, traffic and trade, and much more. Written by John Charles Van Dyke, an American art historian, critic, and nature writer. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell, a prolific American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Joseph Pennell. Near Fine .

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