Boston illustrated
Subtitle: containing full descriptions of the city and its immediate suburbs, its public buildings and institutions, business edifices, parks and avenues, statues, harbor and islands, etc., etc., with numerous historical allusions
By: edited by Edwin M. Bacon
Contributors: M. Parmalee; James R. Osgood and Company; Houghton, Osgood, and Company; Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Edition: New and revised edition.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Public works; Pictorial works; Monuments; Associations, institutions
Other titles: M. Parmalee library edition
Notes: Photomechanical reproductions of images of Boston, with accompanying text.

Includes images of maps of Boston, churches, state house, historic buildings, Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, burying ground, hospital, railroad stations, street views, statue, Boston Common, fountains, monuments, public garden, statues, Athenaeum, private clubs, library, Museum of Fine Arts, Society of Natural History, Institute of Technology, Y. M. C. A., schools, hotels, before and after views of the 1872 fire, city hall, insurance buildings, custom house, commercial buildings, theaters, parks, music conservatory, waterfront views, lighthouses, wharves, Perkins Institution for the Blind, reservoir and Harvard University buildings and campus views.

Includes index.

Attributed to Edward Stanwood by LC in NUC pre-1956.

Date of printing from prefatory note.

"Copyright, 1872, 1875, 1878 and 1886 by James R. Osgood & Co., Houghton, Osgood & Co., and Houghton, Mifflin & Co."--T.p. verso.

Various advertisements: [4] p. at front, p. [2]-[4] of cover.