BOYD'S WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN DIRECTORY. CONTAINING A BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF WASHINGTON, GEORGETOWN, AND ALEXANDRIA, CONGRESSIONAL AND DEPARTMENT DIRECTORY, AND AN APPENDIX OF MUCH USEFUL INFORMATION. COMPILED BY WILLIAM H. BOYD. 1860. PRICE, TWO DOLLARS

Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Maury, Booksellers and Publishers, 1860. Quarter sheep and pictorial paper over boards [rebacked]. [46- advertising], vi, [4], 34-232, [6- advertising] pp, as issued. Boards and endpapers with advertising material. Very Good.

Boyd's first such Directory issued in 1859. This scarce Washington Directory promises improvements in completeness and accuracy, "with an increase of some 3,000 names over the last canvass." A Table of Contents and Index to advertisers are included, with Street Directory, information on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and a plethora of advertisements on paper stock of assorted colors.
Organized alphabetically, the Washington Directory is at pages 33-160. It is followed by the Georgetown Directory at pages 161-176. Pages 177-207 comprise the Business Directory of Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria. Interspersed with advertisements, the book ends with an Appendix of the Government of the United States, listing the names of all officers and Clerks of the Executive Departments; all offices and office-holders of the City Government, with police magistrates and constables, public school teachers, post offices, banks, cemeteries, churches and one "Jews' Synagogue," "Colored Churches," clubs, colleges, courts and judges, hospitals, fire department, Freemasons, Red Men, Temperance Societies. With similar information for Georgetown, and an alphabetical list of Senators and Congressmen with residence addresses.
Spear 374. OCLC records a few locations under several accession numbers as of June 2023.