Annals of Philadelphia : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, from the days of the Pilgrim founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city in its local changes and improvements : to which is added an appendix, containing olden time researches and reminiscences of New York City by John F. Watson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860.

Contributor:

Frederic R. Kirkland Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social life and customs.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Pennsylvania--History.

New York (State)--Social life and customs.

New York (State).

New York (State)--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 740, 78, viii p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Edition:

[1st ed., limited to 1,000 copies].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart ; New York : G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Appendix: containing olden time researches & reminiscences, of New York City..." 78 pages, was enlarged and published separately in 1832 as "Historic tales of the olden time."

Local Notes:

HSP has 3 copies. C. 1 from John Jordan, Jr., and lacks p. v-viii of index. C. 2 presented by Harvey C. Groomes, 1975, and lacks index. C. 3 from Frederic R. Kirkland, 1955, and lacks index.

Cited in:

Sabin, 102140

Checklist Amer. imprints, 5357

OCLC:

1494456