Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Astor Library Of The City Of New York

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Astor Library of the City of New-York: Made to the Legislature, January 29, 1850 On the 28th of Sept. 1848, the trustees selected the site for the library. Under the will they had the choice of a piece of ground 65 feet in width and 125 feet in depth, on the south'side of Astor Place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.