Main entry:

Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952.

Title & Author:

The Cambridge press, 1638-1692; a reëxamination of the evidence concerning the Bay Psalm book and the Eliot Indian Bible as well as other contemporary books and people, by George Parker Winship.

Publication:

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.

Description:

ix, 385 pages facsimiles 24 cm.

Series:

The A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography fund

Notes:
Half title: The A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography.
Includes index.
ch. 1. The beginnings: The adventurers ; The Day family ; The ship's company ; Two Days for one ; The forerunners ; The Freeeman's oath -- ch. 2. The Bay Psalm book: Fame and importance ; The translation ; The translator ; The typography -- ch. 3. Public and private affairs: A victim of circumstances ; Depression and commencement ; The death penalty ; Book labels -- ch. 4. Business openings: Schoolbooks ; Printed catechisms ; Troublesome Indians ; The missionary spirit ; Help from a haven ; Almanac makers ; Elegiacs ; Lost treasure ; Domestic complications -- ch. 5. The revised psalm book: A first edition ; The work of revision ; The 1651 edition -- ch. 6. Laws for church and state: The first codification ; Change of management ; Platform of church discipline ; Supplementary laws ; The second codification -- ch. 7. The end of Henry Dunster: Probing the past ; Fortune shifts sides ; Antipaedobaptism ; Dunster's successor ; The Glover estate ; Firsthand evidence -- ch. 8. The missionary movement: Help from on high ; An apostle to the Indians ; Rival catechisms ; The Indian college ; Trial issues ; The plea for scholarship -- ch. 9. Old and new world troubles: Uncertain futures ; Steady employment ; Business as usual ; The wherewithal ; Cost accounting ; Men and materials ; The Restoration -- ch. 10. Printing the Bible in Indian: Routine progress ; Typographical complications ; Paper and supplies ; The New Testament ; Man proposes ; Private morals ; Finishing the work ; Cross purposes -- ch. 11. The half-way covenant: A cankerous growth ; Publishing problems ; Synod politics ; Christian fellowship -- ch. 12. Competition vs cooperation: Separate maintenance ; Ephemeral printing ; Private printing ; Liberty of the press ; Business rivalry -- ch. 13. Cooperation or collaboration: Publishing arrangements ; Unstable partners ; The New England Primer ; Election sermons ; An outsider's opinions ; Holiday observance -- ch. 14. Business vicissitudes: Mather patronage ; The third codification ; Bookselling and publishing ; Overdrawn apostle ; King Philip's War ; The end of Marmaduke Johnson ; Voices from the dead ; Barren victory -- ch. 15. The closing years: Transmigration ; The Boston Press ; John Eliot's troubles ; Reprinting the Bible ; The wigwam bookshelf ; The end -- Appendices: A comparison of the text of Bay Psalm Book of 1640 and the revised New England Psalms of 1648 ; A further comparison of the psalms of 1640 and 1648, with alternative renderings by the revisers ; Spiritual songs added to the New England Psalms in 1648.

ISBN:

0848606159
9780848606152

Subject:

Bible. Psalms Paraphrases, English.
Bible. Psalms. English. Bay Psalm book.
Bible. Psalms
Printing Massachusetts Cambridge History 17th century.
Early printed books Massachusetts Cambridge 17th century Bibliography.
Imprimerie Massachusetts Cambridge Histoire 17e siècle.
Livres anciens Massachusetts Cambridge 17e siècle Bibliographie.
Early printed books
Printing
Uitgeverijen.
Cambridge Press.
Cambridge (Mass.) Imprints.
Massachusetts Cambridge
Geschichte 1638-1692

Form/genre:

bibliographies.
Bibliographies
History
Paraphrases
Adverstisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia 20th century.
Autographs (Provenance) DLC
Presentation copies (Provenance) DLC

Added entries:

A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 144733
Call No.: PO10606; ID:87-B10763
Status: Available