The Boston book. Being specimens of metropolitan literature
Contributors: 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
Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: American literature; Gift books
Notes: 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.