Bibliography and the Book Trades : Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Short Title List -- Introduction -- 1. The Trout and the Milk an Ethnobibliographical Essay -- 2. "Gods Altar Needs not Our Pollishings": Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book -- 3. "A Bible and Other Books": Enumerating the Copies in Seventeenth-Century Essex County -- 4. Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller -- 5. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 -- 6. A Boston Society Library: The Old South Church and Thomas Prince -- 7· A Note on Statistics, or, what do Our Imprint Bibliographies Mean by "Book"? -- Index.
A collection of essays from one of the most renowned bibliographical scholars of our time.
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