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Philadelphia as it is in 1852 : being a correct guide to all the public buildings; literary, scientific, and benevolent institutions; and places of amusement ; remarkable objects; manufacturies; commercial warehouses; and wholesale and retail stores in Philadelphia and its vicinity; with illustrations and a map of the city and environs. / By R.A. Smith.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, R. A., active 1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel--Guidebooks.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Chase, Eward H. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 preliminary leaves, ii unnumbered pages-xvi pages, 13 unnumbered pages-452 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, folded map. ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, 1852.
- Notes:
- Added t.-p., in colors.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertisements on back free endpaper and pastedown.
- "With illustrations and a map of the city and environs."
- Publisher's advertisements on p. 422-438 (alternate pages) and on front and back endpapers. General advertisements throughout.
- "C. Sherman, printer, 19 St. James Street"--T.p. verso.
- With an added chromolithographed t.p. by Thomas Sinclair.
- Map engraved by Friend & Aub and printed by T. Sinclair.
- Binding: In full red leather with blind tooled front and back boards; also front board has gilt Philadelphia coat of arms; spine with gilt design and gilt letters.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Edward H. Chase.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Alma Struble, 1998.
- Athenaeum copy: This copy replaces old copy which lacks map.
- Athenaeum copy: Front endpaper inscribed as: Bertha M. Davis.
- Athenaeum copy: Front pastedown inscribed as: To Joseph and Bertha Davis, from Edwin Page, 1925.
- Cited in:
- Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 467
- OCLC:
- 2919676
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