Sunshine and Shadow in New York Hardcover - 1869

"Sunshine and Shadow in New York" by Matthew Hale Smith. 1869; J.B. Burr and Company; Hartford. The book features an illustrated title page (with tissue guard) and eleven full-page plates. From the Introduction: "My purpose in this book has been to draw the Great Metropolis with its lights and shades, in a series of graphic papers: to sketch New York as I have seen it. From original and reliable sources I have drawn my information and material for these sketches. I have selected representative men, and have attempted fairly to present their characteristics, and usually as their friends would wish to see them. Of things and places, I have drawn from my own knowledge or observation." The contents are as follows: The City of New York; High Life in New York; Wall Street; Alexander T. Stewart; A Shoddy Party; Mrs. Burdell-Cunningham; Sharp Business and its Value; A Night on the Battery; Mr. Beecher and Plymouth Church; Harper Brothers; Stock and Oil Preachers; John Jacob Astor; Black-Mailing as an Art; Sunday in New York; Detective Force of New York; A Night among the Detectives; The Tombs on Sunday Morning; Police Force of New York; William B. Astor; Cornelius Vanderbilt; The Five Points; The Bowery; Philip Phillips, the Christian Vocalist; Sailors in New York; Fulton Street Prayer Meeting; Business Reverses in New York; Adams Express Company; College Honors; Fernando Wood; Trinity Church Corporation; Conspiracy against President Lincoln; Incidents in City Evangelization; Policemen on Trial; General Charles Stetson and the Astor House; Leonard W. Jerome; Rev. Dr. E.H. Chapin; Rev. O.B. Frothingham; Practical Jokes; New Year's Day in New York; Central Park; School of Instruction for Metropolitan Police; Life among the Lowly; Social Evil in New York; Panel Theiving; Gambling Houses of the First Class; Low Class Gambling Houses; Madame Demorest; General Grant in New York; Origin of the New York Religious Press; The Peculiarities of New York Churches; Ministers' Children; Rev. Dr. Adams of the Presbyterian Church; James Gordon Bennett and the N.Y. Herald; Daniel Drew; The New York Bar - Its Representative Men; The Metropolitan Fire Department; First Division National Guard; Hon. John Kettelas Hackett; Rev. Dr. Samuel Osgood; Bishop Onderdonk; Aaron Burr and His Duel; Rev. Dr. John Dowling of the Baptist Church; Phineas Taylor Barnum; Robert Bonner and the New York Ledger; A.V. Stout, President of Show and Leather Bank; John Allen's Dance House; New York Daily Press; New York Independent; Hon. Horace Greeley; General Charles G. Halpine; R.L. and A. Stuart; James Lenox; August Belmont; Edwin D. Morgan; Theatres in New York; New York Young Men's Christian Association; Admiral David G. Farragut; Dorlan's Fulton Market; Roman Catholics in New York; Gift Swindlers and Lottery Enterprises. Condition: Clean covers; the gilt on the spine has mostly fades. Cloth tears at the bottom edge of the spine, and at the bottom 2 cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The text pages are lightly age-toned with occasional light foxing. There are a couple prices(?) written in pencil at the top-right corner of the front end paper that have been crossed out in black ink. Overall the book is in Good condition.