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. 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 Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

Description

Main Author

Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862.

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston, J. Noble, jun.; [etc., etc.], 1856.

Subjects

English language > English language / Dialects > English language / Dialects / England > English language / Dialects / England / Lincolnshire.
Skirbeck (England)
Boston (England)

Note

An enlargement of the author's "Collections for a topographical ... account of Boston", 1820.
"Large paper.--Folio. (250 copies printed)." This copy not numbered.

Physical Description

xxii, 824 p. front., illus., plates, port., fold. geneal. tab. 32 cm.

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