About this book

"Notable for being the first American book illustrated with an original photograph, which is a salt print of the Hancock House in Boston tipped in as a frontispiece. Pencil inscription under photograph stating 'Hancock House Boston, An Original Sun Picture.'" -- AbeBooks, via WWW, Feb. 13, 2013. Blind stamp: "Whipple's Patent Crystalotype Washington St. Boston". "Most of the illustrations in this volume have been engraved from original drawings, or daguerreotypes taken for the purpose."--p. iv.