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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Mather, Increase and Cotton; and others. A Course of Sermons on Early Piety. [1], v, [1], 34, 30, 36, 26, 52, 36, 32, 65,

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Mather, Increase and Cotton; and others. A Course of Sermons on Early Piety. [1], v, [1], 34, 30, 36, 26, 52, 36, 32, 65, [1], 16 pages. 12mo, early tooled calf, worn along joints, spine cracked; worming affecting title through B4 (with loss), top corner of title chipped, loss along fore-edge of N10 and N11, lacks front and rear blanks, browning. Boston, 1721

  • Notes: Includes separately-paginated sermons by both Mathers, Wadsworth, Colman, Sewall, Prince, Webb, Cooper and Foxcroft. A one page preface to Increase Mather's sermon titled Advice to the Children of Godly Ancestors, asserts that it was delivered by the 83-year-old Mather without notes and recorded by a woman who transcribed it as it was given. Evans 2256; Holmes, Increase Mather 95; Holmes, Cotton Mather 76.

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