Main entry:

Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769-1834.

Title & Author:

Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the Mayor of the City, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals / by Cadwallader D. Colden.

Publication:

[New York] : Printed by order of the Corporation of New York, by W.A. Davis, 1825.

Description:

v, [3], 408, [2] pages, 53 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, color maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Maps hand-colored.
Contains numerous illustrations of fire-engines, Erie canal scenes, and facsimiles of letters from Adams, Jefferson, Monroe and others.
Copy 1 bndg.: Red, straight-grain morocco, with gold-tooled floral frame and blind-stamped seal of New York City on each cover. Front cover has gold-stamped legend: Presented by the City of New York to Joseph M. Harvey Esq. Limerick. Bound by Wilson & Nichols of New York City. Provenance: Also bears ex libris of John Roland Abbey.
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Copy 2 bndg: Half calf with effaced presentation ticket on front cover. Ex libris: Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr. Robert Fulton collection.
Both copies bear the watermark of "John Butler" (cf. Gravell, T.L. Amer. watermarks 1690-1835, fig. 134).
N-YHS second copy: bookplate of Francis L. Hawks; gift of William Niblo, 1867.
With: Appendix, containing an account of the commemoration of the completion of the Erie Canal, by the Corporation of the City of New York. New York : By order of the Common Council, 1826. (Has separate title page and an added, illustrated, title page, but pagination is continuous.).
Cf. Maser, F.E. Bookbinding in America, 1680-1910 37

Subject:

Bookbinding Specimens.
Fire engines New York (State) New York.
Véhicules d'incendie New York (État) New York.
Bookbinding.
Fire engines.
Erie Canal (N.Y.)
New York (State) Erie Canal.
New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

Specimens.

Added entries:

Durand, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886, engraver.
Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 1795-1834.
Maverick, Samuel, 1789-1845, engraver.
Morin, John F., 1801 or 1802-1840, engraver.
Prud'homme, John Francis Eugene, 1800-1892, engraver.
Davis, W. H., printer.
Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866, former owner.
Niblo, William, donor.
Hawks-Niblo Collection.
United States New York New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 64501
Call No.: ID:85-B873
Status: Available