Plate 1: Title Page

FRONT MATTER
FOREWORD
AUTHOR'S REFLECTIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE BIRCHES
INTRODUCTION

ENGRAVED PLATES
1. Title Page & Intro
2. Frontispiece
3. Plan of Philadelphia
4. Arch St. Ferry
5. Arch St.
6. New Lutheran Church
7. Old Lutheran Church
8. Third and Market
9. High Street
10. High Street Market
11. High from Market
12. High from 9th
13. House for the Pres.
14. Unfinished House
15. 2nd Street
16. New Market
17. Bank of the US
18. 3rd Street
19. Library
20. Congress Hall
21. State-House
22. State-House Back
23. State-House Garden
24. Goal (Jail)
25. Alms House
26. Penn. Hospital
27. Bank of Penn.
28. Water Works
29. Preparation for War

Birch's Subscribers

Plate 1: Title Page

Birch's Introduction (printed, not an engraved plate)

PHILADELPHIA The ground on which it stands, was less than a century ago, in a state of wild nature; covered with wood, and inhabited by Indians. It has in this short time, been raised, as it were, by magic power, to the eminence of an opulent city, famous for its trade and commerce, crouded in its port, with vessels of its own producing, and visited by others from all parts of the world. Its situation on the bank of the Delaware, lies about 40 degrees north from the equator, and about 75 degrees west from London, on the west side of the river, about 40 leagues from the sea. Its plan was laid out by William Penn, and was confirmed by charter, on the 25th of October, 1701. This Work will stand as a memorial of its progress for the first century; the buildings, of any consequence, are generally included, and the street-scenes all accurate as they now stand; the choice of subjects are those that give the most general idea of the town; the scenery is confined within the limits of the city, excepting the first and last views: the frontispiece represents, with the city at large, a busy preparation for commerce, and the last plate, with the Swedish church, the exertion of naval architecture to protect it; each subject terminating at the opposite extremities of the suburbs, on the bank of the river.

	NEXT Plate 2: Frontispiece: The City & Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delaware from Kensington

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