A prose description of New York appears on pages opposite the cries and accompanying verse by Frances Osgood. Includes advertisements for establishments selling soap, and matches.
"Price 25 cents. Amusement and instruction."--at head of wrapper title.
Copyright 1845 by John Doggett, Jr.
"S.W. Benedict, stereotyper and printer, 16 Spruce St."--verso of title page.
In printed wrapper. Wrapper printed in red and black ink.
Wood-engraved border on p. [1] of wrapper signed: Calyo. Del. Harrison. Sc.
"On the 12th of October, 1845, will be issued, for twenty-five cents,The great metropolis, or Guide to New York, for 1846: with an elegantmap of the city, to be in pocket-book form, bound in muslin and gilt."--publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper.
Photocopy. [New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Library,] 2009. 25 cm.