(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Mather, Cotton. Early Religion, Urged in a Sermon Upon the Duties Wherein, and the Reasons Wherefore, Young P

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Mather, Cotton. Early Religion, Urged in a Sermon Upon the Duties Wherein, and the Reasons Wherefore, Young People, Should Become Religious. [1], 117, [1] pages. Small 8vo, early tooled sheep, nicely restored with several areas filled in; endpapers torn, minor dampstaining and foxing; early owners's bookplates on the front pastedown; morocco backed slipcase. Boston: B[enjamin] H[arris] for Michael Perry, 1694

first edition. Published by "infamous" printer Benjamin Harris, who had fled England to avoid prosecution for libel and subsequently established the first newspaper in America in 1694. Publick Occurrences lasted but one issue and was immediately suppressed by the Government. Harris is also remembered as the publisher of the first New England Primer. This work by Mather, also intended for the young, includes a listing of 31 books written by the famed Minister. Few copies of this work have survived. Evans 698; Holmes 101; Sabin 46295; not listed in the Brinley Sale.
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