Author: HARASZTI, ZOLTAN
Title: The Bay Psalm Book and the Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book
Description: Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1956. Facsimile. Hardcover. This is a facsimile edition of the very rare first printing, along with the companion volume, the Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book. The books are in Very Good+ condition and were issued without dust jackets. The books are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The slipcase is in mostly clean and bright condition, but has two smallish patches of discoloration to the bottom edge. "The first printing was the third product of the Stephen Day (sometimes spelled Daye) press, and consisted of a 148 small quarto leaves, including a 12-page preface, "The Psalmes in Metre", "An Admonition to the Reader", and an extensive list of errata headed "Faults escaped in printing". As with subsequent editions of the book, Day printed the book for sale by the first bookseller in British America, Hezekiah Usher, whose shop at that time was also located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An estimated 1,700 copies of the first edition were printed. The third edition (1651) was extensively revised by Henry Dunster and Richard Lyon. The revision was entitled The Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs of the Old and New Testament, faithfully translated into English metre. This revision was the basis for all subsequent editions, and was popularly known as the New England Psalter or New England Version. The ninth edition (1698) , the first to contain music, included 13 tunes from John Playford's A Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London, 1654). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
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Title: The Bay Psalm Book and the Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book
Description: Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1956. Facsimile. Hardcover. This is a facsimile edition of the very rare first printing, along with the companion volume, the Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book. The books are in Very Good+ condition and were issued without dust jackets. The books are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The slipcase is in mostly clean and bright condition, but has two smallish patches of discoloration to the bottom edge. "The first printing was the third product of the Stephen Day (sometimes spelled Daye) press, and consisted of a 148 small quarto leaves, including a 12-page preface, "The Psalmes in Metre", "An Admonition to the Reader", and an extensive list of errata headed "Faults escaped in printing". As with subsequent editions of the book, Day printed the book for sale by the first bookseller in British America, Hezekiah Usher, whose shop at that time was also located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An estimated 1,700 copies of the first edition were printed. The third edition (1651) was extensively revised by Henry Dunster and Richard Lyon. The revision was entitled The Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs of the Old and New Testament, faithfully translated into English metre. This revision was the basis for all subsequent editions, and was popularly known as the New England Psalter or New England Version. The ninth edition (1698) , the first to contain music, included 13 tunes from John Playford's A Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London, 1654). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Religion Zoltan Haraszti The Bay Psalm Book American Printers Printing Presses
Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43787
- Book number: 43787
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