The history and antiquities of Boston : and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle : comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln : including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany and agriculture of the district, a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. / by Pishey Thompson ; illustrated with one hundred engravings.

London : Longman and Co., Simpkin and Co. ; Boston, Mass. : Samuel G. Drake, 1856.

xxii, 824, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., port., geneal. tables ; 34 cm.

Illustrations engraved by Thomas Bolton, Charles Thurston Thompson, John Hughes, Samuel Williams, Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt, and Flowers; after L.H. Michael, H.B. Manley, William Henry Prior, Charles Thurston Thompson, John Hughes, John Skinner Prout, John Wykeham Archer, John Palmer, Samuel Williams, W.G. Miller, G.F. Sargent, T. Sulman, Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt, Robert Thomas Landells, Henry George Hine, and Samuel Read.

An enlargment of the author's "Collections for a topographical...account of Boston", 1820.

English

June 01, 2002

Wood engravings - 1856.