Original 1884 first edition of Off-Hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers by Stephen Fiske, published by Geo. R. Lockwood & Son, New York. Features biographical sketches of many of the leading political, financial, literary, theatrical, and business figures of nineteenth-century New York, including Thomas Edison, Grover Cleveland, Jay Gould, Charles A. Dana, Roscoe Conkling, August Belmont, and many others. Bound in the original decorative gilt publisher's cloth. Ex-library copy with library markings, though the pages remain in very good condition. A desirable work for collectors of New York history, Americana, biography, and nineteenth-century publishing. Please review all photographs for condition and completeness.