A four-volume reference set edited by librarian and historian Justin Winsor created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Boston's founding. Offers a comprehensive, scholarly look at the region's political, social, and economic development. All four volumes bound in black cloth with gilt lettering, cloth faded to brown along spines. Bumped at heads and feet, cloth chipped and frayed along all edges. Includes; Volume 1, The early and colonial periods, has cracked hinge at page 200 but holding, Volume 2, The provincial period, Volume 3, The Revolutionary period and The last hundred years pt. 1, Volume 4 The last hundred years pt. 2.