(CENTRAL PARK) First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks. New York: William C. Bryant & Co., 1871. Profusion of illustrations, including color lithographed views, large folding maps, and 5 mounted albumen

(CENTRAL PARK) First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks. New York: William C. Bryant & Co., 1871. Profusion of illustrations, including color lithographed views, large folding maps, and 5 mounted albumen photographs and 2 heliotypes Small 4to, original blue wrappers, worn and stained, front wrapper loose; 90-mm tear to the title, frontispiece and title loose. E400/600Central Park opened in the winter of 1859 under a state-controlled commission. A new charter in 1870 gave control of the park to the citywith a mayorial-appointed commission. The mayor and the new commissionimmediately authorized many improvements to the park, outlined in thisreport. "Only the first report (for 1870-71) has photos: 5 albumen prints 11x17 cm and 2 oval heliotypes, by George Rockwood"- Check listof the NYPL Holdings of Early Works Illustrated with Photographs (in Bulletin of the NYPL vol. 80 no. 3) #234-2.