The Bay Psalm Book: Being a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition Printed by Stephen Dave At Cambridge, in New England in 1640
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked. A number of pages are unopened. Fore edge of the text block is untrimmed. Slight cracks at the margins of the front and back boards. From the Introduction, "When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, and founded the first permanent colony in New England, they brought with them Henry Ainsworth's version of the Psalms in prose and metre, with the printed tunes. This version was used in the church at Plymouth until 1692. Elsewhere, the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, coming over in 1629 and 1630, sang the words and tunes of Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms..."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2bc1601787
- Title
- The Bay Psalm Book
- Format/Binding
- Brown hard back with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The New England Society in the City of New York
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Colonial New England - Pilgrims
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About the Seller
Grampy's Bookcase
Biblio member since 2018
Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
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