1737 BAY PSALMS New England HOLY BIBLE Mather AMERICAN Leather ROOT Family CT

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PRESENTING, A TRUE GEM OF AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTING:THIS IS A GENUINE COPY OF THE LEGENDARY "BAY PSALMS" CARRYING THE CHARACTERISTIC IMPRINT TO THE PSALMS TITLE PAGE, "ESPECIALLY FOR NEW-ENGLAND" THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST COVETED RELIGIOUS IMPRINTS KNOWN TO AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTORSAND HAVE FETCHED UPWARDS OF 10,000$ AT AUCTION! BOUND AT THE REAR OF A 1748 LONDON/THOMAS BASKETT IMPRINTED HOLY BIBLE, THIS PSALM BOOK REMAINS IN ITS ENTIRETY, ALL PAGES PRESENT INCLUDING THE TITLE! ALSO INCLUDED IN THE BIBLE IS THE ROOT FAMILY GENEALOGY, FROM THE LATE 1600S- EARLY 1800S IN FARMINGTON, CT WHICH INCLUDES MANY EARLY SETTLERS A TRUE AMERICAN TREASURE! Please see below for book details, genealogy, and the history of the Bay Psalms in America. BOOK DETAILS: [BAY PSALMS; 1737 IMPRINT; HOLY BIBLE; ROOT GENEALOGY OF FARMINGTON, CT, FROM LATE 1600S]: The Holy Bible : Containing the Old and New testaments: newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in churches. London : Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1748 . Decently preserved Holy Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, appended with the notable Bay Psalms, printed in 1737. It is the 17th Edition, stated. Bible bound in original leather, with both boards held by only the cords, but intact nonetheless. Bible remains 100% complete, with some pages slightly pulled, but all bound and present. NT also in same shape, but retaining both the title page, dated 1747. Bible carries Root family info on front EP as well as at end of book, after Bay Psalms. A large portion of our genealogical findings are included below. THE PSALMS, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS OF THE Old and NEW TESTAMENT, Faithfully Tranflated into Englifh Metre, For the Ufe, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private, Efpecially in NEW-ENGLAND . 17th Edition.The Psalms follow, and remain entirely complete, including the ever-important title page, carrying the New England imprint in the title, and the publisher's info of [ London : Printed by J. H. for T. Longman, at the Ship at Pater- Noster-Row, 1737. ] This imprint contains Psalms written by Richard Mather, the father of notable Salem Witch Trials member Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather. Bay Psalms paginate complete, 84 pages. Bible measures 6.25" x 4" x 2.25". MORE PICS HERE: (Cut & Paste): /user/Eleven11Books/library/1737baypsalms HISTORY OF THE BAY PSALMS: The Bay Psalm Bookwas the collaborative project of over twelve leading Puritan divines and the first publishing venture of the Massachusetts colony. The 1700 copies of the first edition provided Puritans with “a plain and familiar translation” designed to represent more “faithfully” the Hebrew psalms than did the version used by the Pilgrims of neighboring Plymouth. As John Cotton wrote in 1643, the translation was “as near the original as we could express it in our English tongue.” In his preface, Cotton defended the Puritans’ version as attending to “Conscience rather than Elegance, fidelity rather than poetry”: “If therefore the verses are not always so smooth and elegant as some may desire or expect; let them consider that God’s Altar needs not our polishings.” Often printed in England and Scotland as well as in the colonies, the psalter went through over fifty editions in the next century. Revised by Richard Lyon and Henry Dunster (the first president of Harvard) in 1651, and three more times in the 1700s (once by Cotton Mather), The Bay Psalm Book was widely used until it was supplanted in the eighteenth century by psalters written by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (1696), by Isaac Watts (1719), and by John and Charles Wesley (1737). Psalm singing continued to be considered an important means by which the general population could learn the cultural text through the eig... read more

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