The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822 by Thwing, Annie Haven - 1920

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xii. [1], 282 pages. Complete. Illustrated with folding maps, photographs, and illustrations. Brown paper covered boards with paper title label on the the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Edge wear to the corners. Rear hinge is broken. Previous owner's name located in the upper right corner of the right front flyleaf. Interior contents are very clean and maps in very good condition.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1920. Quarter-Cloth. Fine. First Edition of this charming tour of Boston's colonial and pre-industrial neighborhoods. Royal 8vo (240 x 154mm): xii, 282pp, with frontispiece and 23 full-page plates and seven folding maps on tissue. Publisher's quarter black cloth lettered in gold, brown paper-covered boards, decorative label printed in black to front cover, fore- and bottom edges uncut. Vintage bookseller's ticket to front paste-down (Chas. E. Lauriat, Boston). A superior example, tightly bound (hinges skillfully reinforced with Japanese tissue, several leaves roughly opened with no loss of text) and clean throughout. According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Annie Haven Thwing turned her massive collection of nearly 125,000 index cards into this beloved and highly informative 1920 publication. Thwing used colony records and Suffolk deeds to paint a picture of Boston's neighborhoods—the North End, Government and Business Centre, South End, West… Read More