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NEW YORK
BY

James Fenimore Cooper

i! e n g an introduction to an
i

unpublished manuscript, by
the author, entitled The Men
of Manhattan.

NEW YORK:
Printed by Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs for the Publisher

William Farquhar Payson

1930
 The text of New York is in Bulmer Roman
and Italic, cast from the original matrices and

set by hand. The paper used isWhitchurch hand

made, imported from England. The edition is

hand printed at the Stratford Press, New York,

and contains as a frontispiece a colotype repro-

duction of a contemporary print of Broadway in

1850. The binding is that of the Cooper period,

in linen back with printed label and paper over

board sidings. The book is designed in Period

Typography by that fine craftsman S. A.Jacobs.

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 ANNOUNCES
THE PUBLICATION OF
THE FIRST EDITION
OF A WORK BY

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

ENTITLED
HEW YORK
^Originally written as the introduction to a pro-
ejected but uncompleted novel, Hie Men of Man-

liattan,\h\s quaint work —a monograph on New

York and a strangely accurate forecast of na-

tional problems — is one of the most interesting

of all Cooper items. This publication is the first

in book form. The edition is strictly limited to

765 copies of which 750 are for sale at $10 each.

INTRODUCTION by Di Ryan Fox, •

Professor of History, Colu University

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The State of New York had been steadily ad-

vancing in population, resources, and power,

ever since the peace of 1 783. At that time it bore-

but a secondary rank among what were then

considered the great States of the Confederacy.

Massachusetts, proper and singly, then out-

numbered us, while New England, collectively,

must have had some six or seven times our peo-

ple. A very few years of peace, however, brought

material changes. In 1 790, the year in which the

first census under the law of Congress was taken,

theState already contained 340,120 souls, while

New England had a few more than a million. It

is worthy of remark that, sixty years since, the

entire State had but little more than half of the

population of the Manhattanese towns at the

present moment! Each succeeding census di-

minished these proportions, until that of 1830,

when the return for the State of New York gave

1,372,812, and for New England 1,954,709. At
this time, and for a considerable period preced-

ing and succeeding it, it was found that the pro-

portion between the people of the State of New

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