The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822

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 End, and "The Neck"—and their inhabitants. The story is also told visually in seven charming maps." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).