Material relating to the Memorial history of Boston, ca. 1878-1930 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Material relates to the unpublished 5th v. of Winsor's original history, in 4 v., published in 1880. The 5th v., covering the years 1880-1898, was to be edited by Frederick E. Goodrich and Wm. H. Whitmore and published by Tichnor & Fields. Belcher, who had secured the publication rights to the original series of essays, published by James Osgood & Co. as well as the subscription list, electrotype plates (not in the coll.) and other materials, presented them to the Athenaeum in 1930, coinciding with the tercentenary publication Fifty Years of Boston