ADAMS, Charles Francis., Chairman]. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners. January, 1895. Public Document No. 48. 101, [1]p., folding frontispiece, 10 plates and 6 folding plans (some coloured in outline). Original gilt lettered dark brown cloth. Some old water-staining to the upper margins but not extending over the text or plates. Scarce, Copac records Strathclyde only, and not recorded in FirstSearch. 8vo. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co. 1895. ~ In 1892, the Massachusetts Legislature authorized a Preliminary Board of a Metropolitan Park Commission to "consider the advisability of laying out ample open spaces for the use of the public, in the towns and cities in the vicinity of Boston." The Preliminary Board consisted of Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915) as Chairman, and Philip A. Chase (1834-1903) and William B. de las Casas (1857-1930) as associate board members. Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927) served as Secretary and Charles Eliot (1859-1897) as Landscape Architect. This report includes On the Determination of the Boundaries; Proposed Reservations; Metropolitan Parkways; and has a number of appendices.