Washington City and How to See It, A Complete Pocket Guide to All Places of Interest in the National Capital and Vicinity
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4" x 6.25", in original red cloth. vi, [7]-68 pp, + 5 pp ads for Devlin and Company (clothiers), with additional ads on the endpapers; 5 engraved illustrations, 3 plans (Capitol, Senate, House of Representatives), and a folding map. Covers rubbed and somewhat soiled, a few pinholes in the cloth at the spine. Devlin & Co. presentation stamp on front free endpaper. Internally clean and sound. An uncommon guidebook covering major government buildings and monuments, public parks and grounds, benevolent and educational institutions, railways, churches, hotels, theaters, etc. Part of The Riverside Press Centennial Guide Books to the Leading Cities of the United States series; attributed by some to Robert Curtis Ogden, a philanthropist and partner in Devlin & Co. who became interested in the cause of education in the South during Reconstruction and served as a trustee of both the Hampton Institute and the Tuskegee Institute.
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