Accession number
PML 11996-11999
Creator
Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780.
Published
London and Boston : various printers, 1765-1828.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
2nd ed.
Vol. 1 has the corrected t.p. subtituted for the original, which has date MDCCLX.
Vol. 2 contains index to v. 1-2. Thornton's "Index of persons and places mentioned in Hutchinson's Massachusetts" 1879, refers to the 1795 edition of v. 1-2, and the above, the only edition of v. 3.
Vol. 2 was edited by the author's grandson John Hutchinson.
This issue of v. 3, with title slightly different, and bearing "Vol. III" on t.p., was specially designed for the American market.
Continued by George Richards Minot's Continuation of the history of the province of Massachusetts bay.
Each volume concludes with an appendix of documents. In v. 1, this is largely supplemented by "A collection of original papers relative to the history of the colony of Massachusetts bay. Boston, New England: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1769. Like material for the later parts of the "History" was collected by the author, but never published.
Publication information: vol. 1: London: Printed for Mr. Richarson, MDCCLX[V]. Vol. 2: London: Printed by J. Smith, MDCCLXVIII. Vol. 3: London: John Murray, Albemarle street, MDCCCXXVIII. Vol. 4: Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1769.
Vol. 1 & 2, Boston, 1764, 1767, this 2nd ed. London, 1765, 1768. Vol. 3. London, 1828. Vol. 4. Boston, 1769 (cataloged separately, as PML 11999).
This copy has v. 1 dated 1760, an error afterwards cancelled.
An a.l.s. of John Hutchinson, grandson of the author, relating to the work is bound in.
Binder's title for vol. 4: History of Massachusets Bay Colony. Vol. IV.
Call no suffix for vol. 4: Mass.
Vol. 1 has the corrected t.p. subtituted for the original, which has date MDCCLX.
Vol. 2 contains index to v. 1-2. Thornton's "Index of persons and places mentioned in Hutchinson's Massachusetts" 1879, refers to the 1795 edition of v. 1-2, and the above, the only edition of v. 3.
Vol. 2 was edited by the author's grandson John Hutchinson.
This issue of v. 3, with title slightly different, and bearing "Vol. III" on t.p., was specially designed for the American market.
Continued by George Richards Minot's Continuation of the history of the province of Massachusetts bay.
Each volume concludes with an appendix of documents. In v. 1, this is largely supplemented by "A collection of original papers relative to the history of the colony of Massachusetts bay. Boston, New England: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1769. Like material for the later parts of the "History" was collected by the author, but never published.
Publication information: vol. 1: London: Printed for Mr. Richarson, MDCCLX[V]. Vol. 2: London: Printed by J. Smith, MDCCLXVIII. Vol. 3: London: John Murray, Albemarle street, MDCCCXXVIII. Vol. 4: Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1769.
Vol. 1 & 2, Boston, 1764, 1767, this 2nd ed. London, 1765, 1768. Vol. 3. London, 1828. Vol. 4. Boston, 1769 (cataloged separately, as PML 11999).
This copy has v. 1 dated 1760, an error afterwards cancelled.
An a.l.s. of John Hutchinson, grandson of the author, relating to the work is bound in.
Binder's title for vol. 4: History of Massachusets Bay Colony. Vol. IV.
Call no suffix for vol. 4: Mass.
Description
4 v. (2 p.l., iv, 566 p. + 2 p.l., iv, 539 p. + iv, 551 p. + 2 p.l., 576 p.).
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
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