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A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment...

Frontispiece After Paul Revere Jr. American
Publisher E. & C. Dilly & J. Almon British
1770
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  • Title: A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment...
  • Artist: Frontispiece After Paul Revere Jr. (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1734–1818 Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Publisher: E. & C. Dilly & J. Almon (London)
  • Published in: London
  • Date: 1770
  • Medium: Illustrations: engraving, woodcut
  • Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 5 1/8 × 13/16 in. (21 × 13 × 2 cm)
    Frontispiece image: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in. (15 × 10.4 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.90.1902
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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