From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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12pp. plus two wood-engraved views of New York on large folding frontispiece. Dbd. Frontispiece detached. Near fine. In 1801, British artist Robert Burford constructed a rotunda at Leicester Square to exhibit large circular panoramas, helping to set off a popular craze that would last the full first half of the 19th century. The present pamphlet describes Burford's panorama of New York with a brief essay on the city, a sixty-one-point key to the various sites depicted, and a large folding frontispiece plate with the view of the city in two parts. Burford and his brother produced over fifty such panoramas. Scarce. SABIN 54242. Seller Inventory # WRCAM39505
Bibliographic Details
Title: DESCRIPTION OF A VIEW OF THE CITY OF NEW ...
Publisher: Printed by T. Brettell, London
Publication Date: 1834
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