History of New York City, embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1832 to 1884 ... Illustrated, etc. vol. 2
Benson John Lossing's two-volume History of New York City, issued in 1884 by the Perine Engraving & Publishing Company for subscribers and civic readers in the city. The plates are steel-engraved bust portraits of merchants, bankers and officials, each vignetted into a soft oval of stipple shading on a plain page and captioned with an engraved facsimile signature, useful for period faces, whiskers and collars, vignette masks, and handwritten name scripts.
