names of the Collectors of the Port, heretofore to be found only in the New York Civil List (a work not accessible to the many), also the names of the Assistant-Treasurers of the United States who have presided over the Sub-treasury in Wall Street.
The illustrations have been made expressly for this publication, from the most elaborate studies among the records and from various authentic and original maps and prints. Many of the portraits were never before engraved. The table of contents will furnish a ready clue to the numerous topics treated. Statements of every character, whether historical, statistical, or financial, have been carefully verified in order that this work may be not only a well-spring of entertainment to the reader, but of permanent interest and value as a hand-book of reference.
New York City, October 25, 1883.
