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Date of publication:
1640
Author(s):
Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
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Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.
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Eliot, John, 1604-1690, tr.
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Mather, Richard, 1596-1669, tr.
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Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662, tr.
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The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is usually attributed to Mather, but this is ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1652
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"To the Christian reader" (p. [12], 1st count) signed: J. Cotton. J. VVilson. Boston 24. 5. 1652. "The table.'--p. 45-47. An index of topics discussed. "Errata"--p. 47.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1649
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Based on the draft prepared by Richard Mather. The preface is by John Cotton. Cf. Holmes. The date of the Synod given on the title page is a misprint for 1648. For a discussion of the several states see: Sternberg, P.R., ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1645
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Caption title. Signed on p. 7: Jo: Winthrop president, in the name of all the commissioners. Ascribed to the press of Stephen Day in Kimber, S.A. Cambridge press title-pages, 1954.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1651
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"The third edition of the 'Bay Psalm Book,' and the first edition to contain the additional hymns added by Richard Lyon. As revised and improved by Henry Dunster and Richard Lyon, the collection was known as the 'New-England ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1648
Description:
The first compilation of the laws of Massachusetts. Ascribed to the press of Matthew Day in Kimber, S.A. Cambridge press title-pages, 1954.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
Description:
(Evans-TCP ; no. N00081) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 130) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 130)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
Description:
Attributed to John Flavel by Shipton & Mooney. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans. Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
Description:
The American Antiquarian Society copy has a note in the hand of Cotton Mather, identifying the translator as Joshua Scottow. Bookseller's advertisement, p. 58.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
Description:
Concerning religious instruction, especially of youth. Signed: Given at Boston the 10th of March 1668 [new style, 1669]. By the governour and Council, and by them ordered to be printed, and sent accordingly. Edward Rawson ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
Description:
"This work is the earliest known specimen of original American verse printed in the English colonies."--Wegelin. "A postscript to the reader."--p. [17-18], in verse; signed: J.T.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1667
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Appointing a committee to raise supplies for the relief of the fleet. Signed: This act of the magistrates is forthwith to be printed and sent accordingly to the several towns. Boston, August 9th. 1667. Richard Bellingham ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
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Caption title: The heads of the ten duties. Attributed to Edward Reyner in the Dictionary of national biography. Place of publication and printer's name suggested by Evans, who suggests 1667 as date of publication. Dated ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
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Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans. "At a General Court held at Boston, April 29. 1668."--p. [1], 8-9, [1]. Printed on facing pages of a folded sheet, and possibly ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
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Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Evans. Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
Description:
Dedicated to Thomas Prince, governor, and to the magistrates of New Plymouth. "To the reader" signed: John Higginson. Thomas Thacher. March 26. 1669. Error in paging: p. 96 misnumbered 69. "A brief chronological table, of ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
Description:
A second title page, p. [47], 1st count, is identical with the first, except for the imprint, which reads: London, printed for John Allen in Wentworth-Street, near Bell-Lane, 1669. Running title: The mystery of Israel's ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
Description:
(Evans-TCP ; no. N00093) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 146) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 146)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
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(Evans-TCP ; no. N00087) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 139) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 139)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1668
Description:
Attributed to Thomas Vincent in the Dictionary of national biography.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
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(Evans-TCP ; no. N00085) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 137) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 137)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
Description:
Signed: By the Council, Edward Rawson secret. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson by Cushing.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1670
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Signed: By the Council, Edward Rawson secret'. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1669
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Caption title. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1668 (Evans 124).
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
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Errata note, p. [8], 1st count. Postscript, p. 1, 3rd count, signed: John Allin. "A letter concerning the subject of baptisme, written by that eminent minister of Christ Mr. Ionathan Mitchel ... "--p. 2-7, 3rd count.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
Description:
Commonly considered the first work printed in Boston. Cf. Evans. Errata note, p. 25.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
Description:
(Evans-TCP ; no. N00151) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 209) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 209)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1676
Description:
Dedicated to John Leverett, governor of Massachusetts. Errata statement, p. [8].
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
Description:
Errata note, p. 76.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
Description:
"Most copies lack title page"--Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). "Laws & ordinances of warre, pas'd by the General Court of the Massachusets, for the better regulating their ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
Description:
Order confining friendly Indians to plantations during hostilities with the French. Signed: By the Council Edward Rawson secrt. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1676
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Caption title, preceded by colonial seal (Reilly 929) and subject headline. Pagination continues the laws and orders printed by Samuel Green from 1672 (Evans 169).
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1675
Description:
Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Pagination continues the laws and orders printed by Samuel Green from 1672 (Evans 169). In some copies p. 19 is misnumbered 17. Cushing 41 records a variant setting.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1677
Description:
Two states noted by Holmes. In one, the title page has a rule after the fifth line of text, a double rule precedes the imprint, and the eleventh line begins "late deliverance from the rage ..." In the other state, no rule ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1678
Description:
Includes several prefatory poems to the author, Anne Bradstreet. First edition printed at London in 1650, with title: The tenth muse lately sprung up in America. Signatures: a^8 A-Q^8 (Q8 verso blank). Errors in paging: ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1677
Description:
(Evans-TCP ; no. N00180) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 239) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 239)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1678
Author(s):
Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
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Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678.
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Allen, James, 1632-1710.
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Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.
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Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Description:
Imprimatur signed: Thomas Thacher, James Allen, Urian Oakes, Increase Mather. Errors in paging: page number 52 omitted and 56 repeated; p. 76 misnumbered 56. Page 27 not numbered.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1677
Description:
Signed on p. 16: Urian Oakes.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1677
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Preface addressed to the "Christian reader" signed: Thomas Thacher. Boston. 23. 5. 1677.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1678
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An order against shooting guns in towns. Signed: By the Council, Edward Rawson secr'. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Evans gives Samuel Green in Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1678
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Signed and dated according to the old style calendar: 21. 11, 1677/8. Thomas Thacher. Text in two columns.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1677
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Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson, secr. Imprint supplied by Cushing. Evans gives Samuel Green of Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
Written by Increase Mather for the Synod. Dedication to the General Court, p. [5-8], 1st count.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
"To the reader" signed: Boston. 4.m. 23.d. 1679. Increase Mather. "Errata"--p. [80].
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
Signatures: A^8(-A1) B^8.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
Error in paging: p. 29-31 misnumbered 27, 29, 30. Erratum note, p. 30.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
Signed: Edward Rawson secr. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, p. 13-44.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
Errata statement, p. 14.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
"I commend this to be reprinted as a profitable and serious discourse. James Allen."--title page. Evans, who apparently saw no copy, ascribes the work to the press of John Foster.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
Description:
Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1679
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Caption title, preceded by subject headlines. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1682
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Also issued as part of: Mather, Increase. Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets ... Boston, 1683 (Evans 352). Signatures: A-E^8. Two states of the imprint noted. The first (Bristol B59; Shipton & Mooney 39220) ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1682
Description:
Running title: The Quakers in Barmudas tryed, found guilty, sentenced, and executed. Error in paging: p. 99-104 misnumbered 95-100. Second part, p.77-104, has running title: A Quakers erroneous principles propounded and confuted.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1681
Description:
"To the reader" signed: Increase Mather.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1681
Description:
(Evans-TCP ; no. N00242) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 306) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 306)
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1682
Description:
Signed on p. 16: N.R. [i.e., Cotton Mather, using the final letters of his fore- and surnames]. "Advertisement."--p. 16.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1682
Description:
Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secr. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1681
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Caption title. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title. Two states noted: one ends on p. 92 with a chapter ...
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1682
Description:
Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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Evans-TCP
Date of publication:
1682
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Caption title, preceded by subject headline. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Pagination continues the laws and orders published from 1672 (Evans 169). Colonial seal at head of title.
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