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- Q7741312 abstract "The Iconography of Manhattan Island is a six volume study of the history of New York City by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, published between 1915 and 1928 by R. H. Dodd in New York. The work comprehensively records and documents key events of the city's chronology from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. Among other things, it shows the evolution of the Manhattan skyline up to the time of publication.The Iconography of Manhattan Island is a scholarly tour de force: the diligent work of I.N. Phelps Stokes's worldwide research teams scouring public and private collections of maps, guides and obscure source material to complete his encyclopedic monument to New York City. Describing in sometimes excruciating detail the growth of a fortified Dutch settlement into the world's greatest city, the expensive set ultimately included six volumes sold to subscribers and libraries in a limited edition of 360 sets printed on Holland-made paper and 42 on Japanese Vellum. The books exude a poetic reverie for the goings-on and small details of city life that is practically Joycean. Unequalled in its sagacity and architectural detail, Stokes's Iconography provides the careful reader with an inner monologue that can almost be heard when reading. Indeed, he prefaces the third volume of the Iconography with a delicate exposition about the quiet turn where clues may confer a truth after facts have led into darkness. As a last resort one may be successfully led by a thread of mythological sources as opposed to the then current trend to draw rational conclusions based only on scant evidence concluding in results drawn from one's own cunning.The Iconography’s many writers lead the reader through picaresque stories about the humble as well as praising famous men. Containing long forgotten details: accounts from ledgers, accounting books and scraps of paper that the author concedes came from source material literally strewn about in unorganized piles from the floors of far flung academies and international halls of records. Much of this primary source material has been lost to time or destroyed in war. An interesting side note to the rare first edition is a one page apology Stokes makes to subscribers of the rare set of works indicating where paper stock was - by necessity of shortage - changed from the original supplier's high grade Holland paper to similar high grade stock due to the exigency of the Great War!As a tribute to a city, the Iconography stands alone: it is required source material for anyone undertaking a serious study of the city's byways, including the genesis of street names and interesting rambles along the way. The fine print does not encourage reading for long periods but entertains the reader in snippets.".
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- Q7741312 comment "The Iconography of Manhattan Island is a six volume study of the history of New York City by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, published between 1915 and 1928 by R. H. Dodd in New York. The work comprehensively records and documents key events of the city's chronology from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. Among other things, it shows the evolution of the Manhattan skyline up to the time of publication.The Iconography of Manhattan Island is a scholarly tour de force: the diligent work of I.N.".
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