Title: elegant, best of breed
Product review: There is quite simply no better book of photographs of this part of NY. The author must have spent a couple of decades or more, taking pictures, to get a collection like this. The Mayan temples existed long before Catherwood,The Lost Cities of the Mayas: The Life, Art, and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood, of course, but Catherwood put them in the public eye, with magnificent renderings. This is a similarly magnificent rendering of Wall Street. It is a joy to look at. It has a useful history of some Wall Street firms, as well. Architecture tells the history of a place, and this tells you the history of lower Manhattan. The anecdotes are fascinating, as well. This is a model for what a good book of architecture would look like.
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