Hunt (Richard Morris) Designs for the Gateways of the Southern Entrances to the Central Park, first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, title in red and black, 8 lithographed plates (4 tinted views, each with facing plan), some offsetting, mostly to tissue guards, light water-stain to lower margin, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, rubbed, lower cover water-stained, spine ends worn and chipped, [Hitchcock 618], 4to, New York, 1866.

⁂ Scarce. Hunt was the first American to train at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became an influential teacher of architecture in America as well as a practising architect. In addition to public buildings he designed several mansions for notable families on Fifth Avenue, also 'The Breakers' in Newport, Rhode Island for Cornelius Vanderbilt and 'Biltmore' for George Vanderbilt in Asheveille, North Carolina.