The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City. Edward Winslow Martin, 1868 ( First Edition)
Exposing the stark divide between New York City’s opulent wealth and crushing poverty, the work traces the “virtues and vices” found everywhere from Fifth Avenue mansions to the city’s most squalid tenements. Serving both as a vivid historical record and a cautionary guide for visitors, it meticulously chronicles the city’s darker side, including criminal enterprises, “baby farming,” and medical quackery. Through richly descriptive prose and wood-engraved illustrations, the author shows how even the most “clever” outsider is as helpless as a child in the hands of the city’s “sharpers and villains.”
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Collation / Page Count: 551
"The Secrets of the Great City" (New York City) Edward Winslow Martin, 1868
Binding : Leather Binding
Measures : 9 x 6 in | 23 x 15 cm
Language : English
Published : Philadelphia, PA
Subject : Religion
Year Printed : 1868
Original/Facsimile : Original
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