2 vols. xv, [1], 498; [iii]-xi, [1], 540 pp. With copper-engraved frontispiece & 2 engraved plates of music in Vol. I. 8½x5¼, period polished calf with wide gilt-tooled borders, spines tooled & lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. First Edition.

Each volume with a fore-edge painting of an American city, the first a view of Philadelphia across a river, with a large sailing craft on the water, several anglers trying their luck from the bank, the second is Boston, with several vessels on the Charles River. The paintings are bright and well-executed.