Description
An original 1883 Boston and Massachusetts history booklet prepared by Samuel A. Green, issued as a period offprint tied to the city’s older burial grounds and their commemorative bronze tablets. This is the kind of specialized 19th-century historical material that stands out for its strong Bostoniana appeal, civic-history interest, and connection to some of the region’s most important early burial places.
* Original 1883 offprint pamphlet with desirable Massachusetts Historical Society context
* Prepared by Samuel A. Green, an important Boston civic and historical figure
* Focuses on the bronze tablets placed at the gates of Boston’s older burial grounds
* Includes historic cemetery content tied to places such as Granary, Roxbury, and Dorchester burial grounds
* Names notable early figures associated with colonial and early American Boston
* Excellent piece for collectors of Bostoniana, cemetery history, Massachusetts ephemera, and 19th-century pamphlets
The value here is in the originality, the narrow and highly collectible subject matter, and the direct link to Boston’s effort to memorialize its earliest burial grounds in the 1880s. Pieces like this were produced for a limited historical audience and are far more interesting than a general later reprint.
Condition: original booklet with general age wear, edge chipping, corner wear, and a separation at one inner fold with a loose or partially detached section. The text remains readable and the booklet still presents well as a scarce piece of Boston historical ephemera. Please view all the photos.
