CHILDS, Cephas Grier (1793-1871).
Views in Philadelphia, and its Vicinity; Engraved from Original Drawings.
Philadelphia: C.G. Childs, 1827 [-1830], First Edition.

Comparables: Christie's, 2022 - $7,560; Bloomsbury, 2008 - $4,800.

Small folio. (10 4/8 x 7 inches). 3-page list of subscribers at beginning. 24 engraved plates, and one engraved plan after Birch, Doughty, Strickland, Haviland and Leaman (some occasionally heavy spotting). Modern blue cloth backed, old marbled paper boards. Provenance: early shelf-marks on the front paste-down; modern engraved bookplate of the Steel collection on the front paste-down.

First edition, bound from the original parts issued to subscribers between November 1827 and November 1830. "Philadelphia can boast of many beautiful scenes in its immediate neighborhood, and contains finer specimens of Architectural taste than any city on the American continent. Her edifices for the promotion of domestic comfort, of art and science, charity and religion, are no where surpassed . perhaps no one departs without wishing to possess some permanent memorial of our City and its Institutions. To furnish such a memorial is the publisher's object" (Childs, from the original subscription book). Howes C383; Sabin 12731.

6.4B.3E. Seller Inventory # 001468