Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. _Of this book there have been printed three hundred copies from type and original wood blocks on French hand-made paper, and three copies on Roman parchment, by order of the Committee on Publications of The Grolier Club of the City of New York, November, Nineteen Hundred and Twelve_ [Illustration] THE WRITERS OF KNICKERBOCKER NEW YORK THE WRITERS OF KNICKERBOCKER NEW YORK BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED BY WALWORTH STILSON [Illustration] THE GROLIER CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1912 _Copyright, 1912, by The Grolier Club of the City of New York_ LIST OF WOODCUTS DEVICE OF THE GROLIER CLUB Title-page PAGE TAIL-PIECE viii “From Bowling Green to Trinity Church.” 1 HEAD-BAND 3 “New York has grown by the process of destruction, and has become metropolitan through successive stages of self-effacement.” 2 TAIL-PIECE 28 “And there was a bridge on the Boston Post Road ... which bore the suggestive name of the Kissing-bridge.” 3 HEAD-BAND 29 “The old Government House.” 4 TAIL-PIECE 51 “The old-fashioned gentleman who was last seen on the Albany Post Road.” 5 HEAD-BAND 52 “Celebrated in the ‘Salmagundi’ papers as Cockloft Hall.” 6 TAIL-PIECE 67 “Sitting ... overlooking the river ... the old man delighted to recall the golden Knickerbocker age.” 7 HEAD-BAND 68 “Whose distinction was invariably expressed in a green or common, a Congregational spire, an academy, and rows of graceful elms.”