Item #80959 First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park

First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park

Item #80959

(Fairmount Park) First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park Phila.: King & Baird, 1869. 1st ed. 56pp. Folding map. [bound with] Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. Phila.: King & Baird, 1870. 1st ed. 64pp. 3 folding maps. [bound with] Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. Phila.: King & Baird, 1871. 1st ed. 88pp. Frontis., plates, folding map. [bound with] Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. Phila.: King & Baird, 1872. 1st ed. 104pp. Frontis., plates (one colored), original mounted photograph. Contemporary 3/4 gilt-ruled brown morocco, raised spine bands, gilt-ornamented compartments, , marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Very good. $1500[a].00 With the bookplate of noted art collector Joseph Harrison, Jr., one of the original ten members of the Fairmount Park Commission. The Commission administered the park (over 2000 acres in Philadelphia) from 1867 until 2010. These reports document the growth of the park,

Price: $1,500.00

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