[331] In Sparks’s Amer. Biog., vol. vi.
[332] Sibley, Harvard Graduates, iii. 158, gives a list of authorities on Mather, which may be supplemented by the references in Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. Sibley’s count of his printed and manuscript productions (456 in all) is the completest yet made. Samuel Mather gives 382 titles as the true number of his distinct printed books and tracts.
[333] It is usually priced at figures ranging from $7.00 to $10.00.
[334] Mass. Hist. Coll., v. 201.
[335] Douglass, with his usual swagger, points out (Summary, etc., i. 362-3) various errors of Neal.
[336] Harvard Col. lib., no. 6372.12.
[337] Carter-Brown, iii. 899; Sabin, v. 20,726. Cf. present History, Vol. III. p. 346.
[338] The suppression, however, was incomplete. The numbers already out could not be recalled, and it is these bound up which constitute volume i. in many copies of the book, and the preface in which the suppression is promised is often bound with them. Rich (Catal., 1832, p. 94) had seen none of the proper independent issues of vol. i., in which the suppression was made, and in these copies, sig. Ff. (pp. 233-40) is reset, as well as other parts of the volume, though not all of it. A note in vol. i. (pp. 254-5), not bearing gently on Knowles, was suffered to stand.
[339] Sabin (vol. v. 20,726) says that some copies of vol. ii., which have an appendix from Salmon’s Geog. and Hist. Grammar, are dated 1753. The Sparks (no. 780) and Murphy (no. 814) catalogues note Boston editions in 1755. In the last year (1755) and in 1760 the book was reprinted in London, with a map; but Rich and the Carter-Brown catalogue seem to err in saying that the 1760 edition was one with a new title merely. Sabin (vol. v. 20,727-28) says the edition of 1760 has a few alterations and corrections.
[340] Douglass loftily says (i. p. 310), in defence of his digressions: “This Pindarick or loose way of writing ought not to be confined to lyric poetry; it seems to be more agreeable by its variety and turns than a rigid, dry, connected account of things.”