Iconography of Manhattan Island
- SIGNED
- New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915
New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915. Full Description:
STOKES, I. N. Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909 Compiled from Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915.
First edition, limited to 360 copies on English hand-made paper and forty-two on Japanese vellum. Present copy is on English paper. Six large quarto volumes (11 1/4 x
8 1/4 inches; 285 x 210 mm). With numerous engraved plates, illustrations and maps some of which are in full color and others in sepia and black-and-white. Each volume with a frontispiece, including a full color double-page frontispiece in Volume I. With an engraved title-page for each volume. A bibliography, by Victor H. Paltsitsin volume VI, p. [179]-281. With original prospectus and two letters from publisher Robert Dodd, acknowledging subscribers.
Uniformly bound in publisher's half vellum over blue cloth. Vellum ruled in gilt. Board with a gilt armorial stamp as central device of emblems of New Amsterdam on front and New York on the back. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Each volume chemised in blue paper with the same gilt central device on front and back. Spines of chemise lettered in gilt. Each volume housed in a matching blue board slipcase. Some light wear to slipcases. An about fine set.
“The most elaborate and comprehensive history of Manhattan” (Howes, 1033).
"Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867-1944) was an American architect and housing reformer. John Mead Howells and Stokes worked as partners in the architectural firm Howells and Stokes. In addition to his architectural work, Stokes was an organizer of the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society, served on the New York State Tenement House Commission, helped write the New York tenement house law of 1901, and designed several model tenements. He had a renowned collection of prints of old New York and was responsible for The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, a six-volume pictorial history published between 1915 and 1928." (New York Public Library).
"The Iconography of Manhattan Island represents the result of a two-fold purpose: to collect, to condense, and to arrange systematically and in just proportion, within the confines of a single work, the facts and incidents which are of the greatest consequence and interest in the history of New York City, with special reference to its topographical features and to the physical development of the island; and to illustrate this material by the best reproductions obtainable of important and interesting contemporary maps, plans, views, and documents; in other words, to produce a book dealing with the physical rather than with the personal side of the city's history, which shall be at the same time useful and interesting to the student of history, the antiquarian, the collector, and the general public." (From the Preface).
Howes, 1033.
HBS 69454.
$7,500.
STOKES, I. N. Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909 Compiled from Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915.
First edition, limited to 360 copies on English hand-made paper and forty-two on Japanese vellum. Present copy is on English paper. Six large quarto volumes (11 1/4 x
8 1/4 inches; 285 x 210 mm). With numerous engraved plates, illustrations and maps some of which are in full color and others in sepia and black-and-white. Each volume with a frontispiece, including a full color double-page frontispiece in Volume I. With an engraved title-page for each volume. A bibliography, by Victor H. Paltsitsin volume VI, p. [179]-281. With original prospectus and two letters from publisher Robert Dodd, acknowledging subscribers.
Uniformly bound in publisher's half vellum over blue cloth. Vellum ruled in gilt. Board with a gilt armorial stamp as central device of emblems of New Amsterdam on front and New York on the back. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Each volume chemised in blue paper with the same gilt central device on front and back. Spines of chemise lettered in gilt. Each volume housed in a matching blue board slipcase. Some light wear to slipcases. An about fine set.
“The most elaborate and comprehensive history of Manhattan” (Howes, 1033).
"Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867-1944) was an American architect and housing reformer. John Mead Howells and Stokes worked as partners in the architectural firm Howells and Stokes. In addition to his architectural work, Stokes was an organizer of the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society, served on the New York State Tenement House Commission, helped write the New York tenement house law of 1901, and designed several model tenements. He had a renowned collection of prints of old New York and was responsible for The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, a six-volume pictorial history published between 1915 and 1928." (New York Public Library).
"The Iconography of Manhattan Island represents the result of a two-fold purpose: to collect, to condense, and to arrange systematically and in just proportion, within the confines of a single work, the facts and incidents which are of the greatest consequence and interest in the history of New York City, with special reference to its topographical features and to the physical development of the island; and to illustrate this material by the best reproductions obtainable of important and interesting contemporary maps, plans, views, and documents; in other words, to produce a book dealing with the physical rather than with the personal side of the city's history, which shall be at the same time useful and interesting to the student of history, the antiquarian, the collector, and the general public." (From the Preface).
Howes, 1033.
HBS 69454.
$7,500.