AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK] MATHER, COTTON. The man of God furnished. The way of truth, laid out; with a threefold catechism, . Boston: printed by B. Green, for Samuel Phillips at the brick shop, 1708. First edition. Contemporary American calf. 5 x 3 inches (13 x 8 cm); [2], 140, [2] pp., A-F^(12). Binding worn but sound, tear to the gutter margin of the title, overall a very good copy for a book of this class. The title verso bears an inscription "David Fuller left him by his honored father who died the 23 of December 1798." An extremely rare work, attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. It was intended for the use of children, hence the small format. In the first section, Mather takes John Cotton's beginning catechism Milk for Babes, first published in the 1640s, and renders it "more Easy & Proper for Children of the Smallest Capacity." This text was influential on later editions of the catechism of the New England Primer. The final leaf bears The body of divinity versifyed, a verse attributed to Mather. Only a handful of copies of this very early American juvenile are held in American libraries, and the only copy we can trace at auction sold in 1977 ($1,500). Holmes Cotton Mather 216-A; Evans 1363; ESTC W19226. C
AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK] MATHER, COTTON. The man of God furnished. The way of truth, laid out; with a threefold catechism, . Boston: printed by B. Green, for Samuel Phillips at the brick shop, 1708. First edition. Contemporary American calf. 5 x 3 inches (13 x 8 cm); [2], 140, [2] pp., A-F^(12). Binding worn but sound, tear to the gutter margin of the title, overall a very good copy for a book of this class. The title verso bears an inscription "David Fuller left him by his honored father who died the 23 of December 1798." An extremely rare work, attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. It was intended for the use of children, hence the small format. In the first section, Mather takes John Cotton's beginning catechism Milk for Babes, first published in the 1640s, and renders it "more Easy & Proper for Children of the Smallest Capacity." This text was influential on later editions of the catechism of the New England Primer. The final leaf bears The body of divinity versifyed, a verse attributed to Mather. Only a handful of copies of this very early American juvenile are held in American libraries, and the only copy we can trace at auction sold in 1977 ($1,500). Holmes Cotton Mather 216-A; Evans 1363; ESTC W19226. C
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