Between the Covers

Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 27 printed pages, plus many blank leaves interleaved. Disbound. Uncut. Some chipping, good or better. A remarkable work, listing all constables, clerks of markets, deputy clerks of markets, deputy water-bailiffs, sealers of weights and measures, dozens of butchers and porters, and hundreds of cartmen (from the first to twenty-fourth class!) in Exchange, Oswego, Fly, Catharine, Greenwich and other New York City markets. Old bookseller's description laid in (M & S Rare Books, Inc.). We locate a single copy (New York Historical Society Library, similarly interleaved).

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