The history and antiquities of Boston
Subtitle: 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: By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Boston, J. Noble, jun.; [etc., etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 824
Subjects: Dialects; English language
Notes: "Large paper.--Folio. (250 copies printed)." This copy not numbered.

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