The vvhole Booke of Psalmes / faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullness, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture psalmes in the churches of God. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts].

Bible. Psalms. English. Bay Psalm book. 1640.

[Cambridge, Mass.] : [Stephen Day], Imprinted 1640.

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Commonly referred to as: Bay Psalm book

United States -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.

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The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is usually attributed to Mather, but this is disputed by Zoltan Haraszti, who attributes it to John Cotton. Cf. Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p. 12-27.
Printed at the press in Cambridge, Mass., supervised by Stephen Day (variously Daye). Day's son Matthew may have been responsible for the actual printing.
"Faults escaped in printing." Unnumbered page 295.

Evans 4
STC (2nd ed.) 2738
Holmes, T.J. Minor Mathers, 53-A.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed September 18, 2018).

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