"Valentine's Manual Of The City Of New York" 11 Vols (1916-1927) BROWN, Henry Collins [edited by]

BROWN, Henry Collins [edited by]

The Valentine Company

7 3/8" x 5 3/8"

Founders Edition

w/ 2 8-fold illustrations of Wall Street, North and South Sides, from Broadway to William Street before the Great Fire of 1835

w/ 4-fold illustration of City Hall Park from a contemporary lithograph in 1854 by Bachman

w/ 8-fold panoramic view of the North Side of Forty-Second Street from Fifth to Lexington Avenues 1876

*volume 1920 rear panel detached*

Bound by Stikeman & Co. N.Y.

Henry Stikeman’s career virtually paralleled the heyday of art bookbinding in America: beginning toward the end of the 19th century, into the beginning of the 20th.

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The Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, commonly known as Valentine's Manual, was published annually by the city's Common Council from 1841 to 1870, and is of historical interest today partly because of its statistics and listings of officials, but mostly because of historical essays and images added by its compilers unrelated to other specific contents.

In the early 20th century, Henry Collins Brown edited Valentine's Manual of the City of New York (1916–17 and 1917–18) and Valentine's Manual of Old New York (1919 through 1928), both also commonly referred to as Valentine's Manual, related in spirit to the original series, and with many historical pictures.