New York By Sunlight and Gaslight; a Work Descriptive of the Great American Metropolos; Its High and Low Life; Its Spelendors and Miseries; Its Virtues and Vices; Its Gorgeour Palaces and Dark Homes of Poverty and Crime; Its Public Men; Politicians; Etc.

672 pages; 57 chapters; numerous b/w illustrations and engravings. Page margins and edges darkened; no markings. Front endpapers and preface pages are excised from book; all other pages are tight and intact. Front inner spine hinge is cracked and weakened. Dark green hard covers with black lettering and ornate design and Statue of Liberty on front. Covers are faded; edges, spine ends, and corners rubbed and slightly frayed; page edges are darkened. Book is 2 1/4 inches thick. Content headings include: People of New York; growth, Harbor,; Highlands; Municipal Government; Broadway; Stages; Fifth Avenue; Elevated Railroads; Society; Street Railways; Police; Ferries; Prisons; Public Squares; Pawnborkers; Central Park; Trinity Church; Lost Sisterhood; National Guard; Vanderbilt; Crime; Bar-Rooms; Henry Bergh; East River Bridge; Hudson River Tunnel; Shopping Tenement Houses; Amusements; Fire Department; Religion; Bowery; Hotels; Tramps; Post-Office; Markets, etc. RARE VINTAGE COPY.