[587] [Something of its bibliographical history is told with references in Memorial History of Boston, i. 458-460. Of two copies of the original edition there mentioned, one, the Fiske copy, is now in the Carter-Brown library (Catalogue, ii. 470); another, the Vanderbilt copy, has since been burned in New York.—Ed.]
[588] For a list of Daye’s and Green’s books see Thomas’s History of Printing, 2d ed.; and other references to the early history of the press in New England will be found in Memorial History of Boston, i. ch. 14.
[589] It was reprinted in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., iii. A new edition, with learned notes and an introduction by the editor, Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, was published in Boston in 1867. [A portion of the manuscript is in the cabinet of the Historical Society, and a fac-simile of a page of it is given herewith, together with the accompanying statement on the manuscript in the hand of the learned Boston antiquary, James Savage, of whom there is a memoir by G. S. Hillard in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvi. 117. Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., i. 81. The autograph of Lechford is from another source. The Ebeling copy is certainly no longer unique, though the book is rare enough to have been priced recently in London at $75. Cf. Sabin, Dictionary, x. 158; Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 506, 545; Brinley Catalogue, no. 322; Menzies, no. 1,202. There is a note-book of Lechford preserved in the American Antiquarian Society’s Cabinet.—Ed.]
[590] [A portrait of Cotton of somewhat doubtful authenticity, together with references on his life, will be found in Memorial History of Boston, i. 157.—Ed.]
[591] [The best bibliographical record of the books in Cotton’s controversy with Williams, as indeed of most of the points of this present essay, is the appendix of Dexter’s Congregationalism; a briefer survey, grouping the books in their relations, is in Memorial History of Boston, i. 172. See a later page under “Rhode Island.”—Ed.]
[592] This is the earliest edition of this famous book; and I know of but two copies of it,—one before me, and one in the Thomason Library in the British Museum. Mr. Arthur Ellis, in his History of the First Church in Boston, has given a fac-simile of the titlepage. An edition was printed at Cambridge in 1656, of which a copy is in the library of the late George Livermore.
[593] Palfrey, New England, ii. 184.
[594] In 1725 the Results of Three Synods ... of the Churches of Massachusetts, 1648, 1662, and 1669, was reprinted in Boston. Cf. Carter-Brown Catalogue, iii. no. 362.
[595] A copy of the rare first edition is in the library of the American Antiquarian Society, from which twenty copies were reprinted by Mr. Hoadly, Secretary of State of Connecticut, in 1858. The important subject of this confederation is sufficiently illustrated in a lecture by John Quincy Adams, in 1843, published in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., ix. 187. [See references to reprints of the articles, and notes on the Confederacy in Memorial History of Boston, i. 299.—Ed.]
[596] Copies of Winslow’s book are very rare, and are worth probably one hundred dollars or more, being rarely seen in the market. [There are copies in the Carter-Brown Library (Catalogue, ii. 600, with fac-simile of title), and in Mr. Deane’s collection. The second edition appears in the Brinley Catalogue, no. 691.—Ed.] Gorton’s book, also rare, has been reprinted by Judge Staples, with learned notes, in the Rhode Island Historical Society’s Collections, vol. ii. [and is also in Force’s Tracts, vol. iv. There are copies in the Prince, Charles Deane, Carter-Brown (Catalogue, ii. 589, with a long note), and Harvard College libraries. Cf. also Sabin’s Dictionary, vii. 352, and Brinley Catalogue, no. 578.—Ed.] While writing this note there has come to my hand no. 17 of Mr. S. S. Rider’s Rhode Island Historical Tracts, containing “A Defence of Samuel Gorton and the Settlers of Shawomet,” by George A. Brayton. See other authorities noted in the Memorial History of Boston, i. 171, and in Bartlett’s Bibliography of Rhode Island.