Massachusettensis de Conditoribus; or, The Builders of the Bay Colony
Boston: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (6.25" x 9.75"), blue-grey cloth with watered silk pattern, paper spine lable. Fore-edge deckled. 365pp. with appendix, bibliography and index. Color frontispiece of John Winthrop, Jr. plus 45 black and white plates. Very good with a little scuff on the spine. This large-paper edition is limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 146. Very good +. Item #19515
"REPORTING, The Design where-on, The Manner where-in, and the People where-by The Colony of Massachusetts-Bay was Planted, by means of eleven Short and Succinct Discourses respecting the Lives, Characters, and Remarkable Deeds of several of the most EMINENT AND WORTHY PERSONS both Clerical and Lay, Righteous and Reprobate, among the First Generation of Planters in New England."
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