[Rarebooks] OFFER: PICTURES OF LIFE & CHARACTER IN NEW YORK.

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AVERELL, G. W., & CO. : PICTURES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER IN NEW YORK.  Folio, 
35 cm., TP + 19 FP plates; tinted Lithos. printed and drawn by G.W. Averell 
& Co., NY, Ca. 1877. The entire book is drawn in a free caricatural style 
and was not for sale,  but was distributed to hotels in the Northeast.  It 
was a vehicle for business advertisements for incoming travelers to the 
bustling city of New York, the Great Metropolis. There is no other book of 
this sort which about any other American city. It is a kind of comic 
boosterism in a broad caricaturish style which stereotypes many ethnicities 
and classes of people engaged in life on the street. The Ads paid for the 
publication and were its main source of revenue. A copy for use by 
Advertising salesmen, partly penciled in where space has been sold on 
versos of plates. Printed on a heavier stock than usual and better in 
quality reproduction than in the ordinary issue. Subjects include: The 
Ferry; Chatham Street [caricatured Jewish clothing merchants]; Arrival in 
New York by ship; Boarding Houses; the Stage; Immigrants arriving at Castle 
Garden; the Bon Ton on parade; the Park; the Race Course; Female types and 
dandies; Prize Fight; Street types; Chinese working, using opium, gambling; 
Ethnic types and professions, black street sweeper featured; Street Types 
[many plates]. A rare and sought after New York publication. Not in Sabin, 
Murrell, OCLC/RLIn 3 Locs. similar to our description, three others 
assigned other dates on internal evidence[dates in ads].  The backs of the 
plates are not counted as pages here, nor by the NYPL, but two other 
libraries  count them;   NLM gives no pagination.  Lower margin a little 
dusty,  binding lightly water stained, OW VG. $1775.00

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