A History of the Singer Building Construction: Its Progress from Foundation to Flag Pole

Edited by O.F. Semsch

Published by Shumway & Beattie, New York, 1908

About this Item

The uncommon 1908 1st edition of this fascinating history of the construction of the Singer Building in New York, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece located at Liberty St. and Broadway in the Financial District. One of Manhattan's early skycrapers, construction was completed in 1908 when, for its first glorious year, the building (also known as the Singer Tower) was the tallest building in the world at 612 ft. The chief architect was Ernest Flagg, who designed the building in multiple phases between 1897 and 1908. This copy, in its original dark-green cloth, has held up nicely. Clean, tight and VG+, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel. Just a touch of light spotting and streaking at the panels, mild spotting to the title page. Tall quarto, lovely marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Dozens of remarkable black-and-white photographs (and engravings) chronicling the construction of the building. A nice example --scarce in its original iteration-- of turn-of-the-century New York architecture.

Seller Inventory # 21550

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of the Singer Building Construction: Its Progress from Foundation to Flag Pole
• Publisher: Shumway & Beattie, New York
• Publication Date: 1908
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture