A reëxamination of the evidence concerning the Bay Psalm book and the Eliot Indian Bible as well as other contemporary books and people
Description
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; First hand 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.
Notes: Half title: The A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography.
Includes index.
Printed 1968, c.1946.
Status: OK
Status By: Wescott, Kay
Status Date: 2021-09-22