The author also compiled "The Arts and Crafts of New York 1726-1776" to which this volume is a sequel. She covers painting and engraving, silver and jewelry, china, earthenware and glass, pewter, furniture, clocks and watches, builders and buildings, ships and boats, metal workers and iron works, paper manufacturers, printers and bookbinders, fabrics and needlework, miscellaneous trades and occupations, costume, painting and glazing, coach makers and coaches, music and musical instruments, exhibits, waxworks and other novelties, as well as a representative list of illustrative woodcuts and engravings from New York newspapers 1777-1799. Indexed.