The History and Antiquities of Boston, and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake and Wrangle; Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln
by THOMPSON, PISHEY
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Longman & Co / John Noble, Jun. 1856. FRONT BOARD DETACHED, super octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece, xxii + 824pp, illus, scruffy (front board completely detached, heavy cracking to rear hinge- board v shaky & delicate, heavy scuffing & chipping to extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, heavy tanning to page edges, heavy chipping & creasing to some page edges, light soiling & foxing to eps, bookbinder's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)
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- The History and Antiquities of Boston, and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake and Wrangle; Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln
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- THOMPSON, PISHEY
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- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman & Co / John Noble, Jun. 1856
- Keywords
- Boston Lincoln county history antiquity villages
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- Octavo
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