The Prospect of Philadelphia, and Check on the Next Directory. Part I.
Philadelphia: Francis & Robert Bailey 1795. 108 pp., 8vo (200 x 120 mm). Contemporary paper wrappers, printed title label on the upper wrapper “The Five Northern Wards, and the South Side of High-Street.” Condition : minor browning; chips and wear. Provenance : John Connor (signature on the title); John Watson (signature on the front wrapper). first edition of the first philadelphia directory to identify african-american residents . A fascinating directory, Hogan here lists the residents of the city by street, with an index in the rear to find specific names. Hogan explains in a note that precedes the Index: “The reader will see the relative situation of the person he wants to find out; who loves all around him; whether he is an inmate, the principal person in the house, and whether the name of the person he wants is that of a white person or of an African.” Within the directory Hogan identifies each African American resident with “Af.” appearing before their names -- the first such census to appear in a directory and of enormous value to the modern historian. Of further interest is the tabulation at the end of each block of the numbers of those who died at that location from the Yellow Fever epidemic, giving an interesting look at the geographic spread of the disease. This first part was “confined to that space comprehended between Vine-street and Cedar or South-street; and between the Delaware and Ninth-street.” A second edition of the first part was issued the following year, appended with three other parts comprising the remainder of the city. Both early owners of this copy of the directory are listed within. rare . Only the Laird U. Park copy has appeared at auction in the last quarter century. Evans 28845; Howes H571; Spear, p. 274.
The Prospect of Philadelphia, and Check on the Next Directory. Part I.
Philadelphia: Francis & Robert Bailey 1795. 108 pp., 8vo (200 x 120 mm). Contemporary paper wrappers, printed title label on the upper wrapper “The Five Northern Wards, and the South Side of High-Street.” Condition : minor browning; chips and wear. Provenance : John Connor (signature on the title); John Watson (signature on the front wrapper). first edition of the first philadelphia directory to identify african-american residents . A fascinating directory, Hogan here lists the residents of the city by street, with an index in the rear to find specific names. Hogan explains in a note that precedes the Index: “The reader will see the relative situation of the person he wants to find out; who loves all around him; whether he is an inmate, the principal person in the house, and whether the name of the person he wants is that of a white person or of an African.” Within the directory Hogan identifies each African American resident with “Af.” appearing before their names -- the first such census to appear in a directory and of enormous value to the modern historian. Of further interest is the tabulation at the end of each block of the numbers of those who died at that location from the Yellow Fever epidemic, giving an interesting look at the geographic spread of the disease. This first part was “confined to that space comprehended between Vine-street and Cedar or South-street; and between the Delaware and Ninth-street.” A second edition of the first part was issued the following year, appended with three other parts comprising the remainder of the city. Both early owners of this copy of the directory are listed within. rare . Only the Laird U. Park copy has appeared at auction in the last quarter century. Evans 28845; Howes H571; Spear, p. 274.
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