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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.

Pennsylvania--History.

Pennsylvania.

New York (N.Y.)--History.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xii, 740, 78, viii p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., geneal. table, ports. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Pa.] : For sale by Uriah Hunt, 1830.

Notes:

Added t.p. has imprint: Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart ; New York : G. & C. H. Carvill, 1830.

"The Subscriber, having purchased the remainder of the edition ... takes this occasion to offer it to his friends and customers, and to the public in general."--P. 2.

"Appendix: Containing Olden Time Researches & Reminiscences of New York City / by J.F. Watson, in 1828" 78 pages, was enlarged and published separately in 1832 as "Historic Tales of the Olden Time."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cited in:

Sabin, 102140 (note)

Checklist Amer. imprints, 5358

OCLC:

32336691