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 Being an introduction to an unpublished manuscript, by the author, entitled The towns of Manhattan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.

Contributor:

Fox, Dixon Ryan, 1887-1945.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Fox, Dixon Ryan, 1887-1945, editor.

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988 (inscription) (RBC copy)

Payson, William Farquhar, 1876-1939 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 1 leaf, 2 unnumbered pages, 63 pages : including frontispiece ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Printed by Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs for the publisher William Farquhar Payson, 1930.

Notes:

Title vignette: portrait of author.

Edited by Dixon R. Fox.

"'New York' was written as the introduction to a project work left unfinished at Cooper's death. It was proposed to have Susan Fenimore Cooper complete the work but this plan was abandoned."--Cf. BAL

"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 ..."--T.p. verso.

Title vignette, portrait of author.

"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 360."

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.

Local Notes:

VPL copy is no. 215.

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 160.

RBC copy inscribed to Robert E. Spiller by William Farquhar Payson, Oct. 4, 1930.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mrs. John W. McPherson.

Cited in:

BAL, 3957

OCLC:

1842505