The Boston book. Being specimens of metropolitan literature
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George S. Hillard, O. W. Holmes, James R. Lowell, Edwin Percy Whipple, john g. whittier, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Harriet Winslow, J L Motley, Thomas William Parsons Jr., Nehemiah Adams, Daniel Webster, Jacob Bigelow, Ephraim Peabody, Edward Everett, Robert C. Wintrhop, Charles Sprague, Sharp, Daniel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Parkman Jr., Epes Sargent, William H. Prescott, Pierpont, John, Rufus Choate, Henry T. Tuckerman, James F. Coleman, Charles Sumner, Frances S. Osgood, F. D. Huntington, Richard Henry Dana, Joseph T. Buckingham, Lunt, George, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Greene, John S. Sleeper, Thomas W. Parsons Jr., Theodore Parker, William W Storey, Samuel G. Goodrich, James Thomas Fields, John Greenleaf Whittier, Isaac McLellan, Daniel Haskel, Jared Sparks, Charles James Sprague, Richard H. Dana Jr., Robert C Waterson, Wright, Elizur, George R. Russell, Croswell, William, Josiah, Jr. Quincy, George Putnam, N. L. Frothingham, Anna H Phillips, Hannah F. Lee, and Andrews Norton
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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.
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