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The Boston book. Being specimens of metropolitan literature

by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891; Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892; White, Kevin H; McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997, former owner

Publication date: 1850

Topics: American literature, Gift books

Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Edited by James T. Fields

Added t.-p., engraved

Bound in purple cloth; stamped in gold and blind; pale yellow endpapers

Contains contributions by Holmes, Hawthorne, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson, and others

See BAL 5929

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy no. 1 ex libris (inscription): Wilfred L. O'Leary '25 Headmaster 1964-

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copies: original illustrated title covers preserved

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy no. 3 contains inscribed gift note from Boston mayor Kevin H. White to author David McCord

Addeddate: 2011-12-20 15:42:17

Associated-names: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891; Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892; White, Kevin H; McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997, former owner