Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York

xxx, 386 pp. Illustrated edition. Engraved plates and portraits. Green boards with gilt titles, top page ridge gilt. "It would seem that no more interesting volume could be written than once describing the last days of Knickerbocker life in New York. Such a volume was before his decease prepared by Mr. Abram C. Dayton, of this city, a gentleman of great culture and refinement. Mr. Dayton was of an ancient and honorable lineage. His father, Charles Willoughby Dayton, was an opulent merchant of this city, who came to New York shortly after the beginning of the present century and who was identified with its growth and prosperity. ...The publication of this volume has been carried out by his [Abram C. Dayton] eldest son, the Hon. Charles W. Dayton, an eminent member o the New York bar and prominent in political affairs."--Introduction