Building for profit; principles governing the economic improvement of real estate
A 1911 treatise by engineer Reginald Pelham Bolton on the economics of real-estate development, printed in New York by the De Vinne Press for builders, investors, and property owners. The 19 halftone photographs give aerial and street-level views of Manhattan blocks, early steel-frame office towers in narrow canyons, and painted signage on low commercial rows.

















