Elder Brewster's library
Subtitle: as interpreted from the meagre record at Plymouth. A paper contributed to the Massachusetts Historical Society
By: by Henry M. Dexter.
Contributors: Dexter, Henry Martyn, 1821-1890.
Series: [Old colony. A collection of thirteen pamphlets ...]
Publisher: J. Wilson and Son
Published: 1890
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Private libraries -- New England.; Books -- Prices.
Notes: Interpreted from "those brief minutes of the library of Elder William Brewster, which are contained in the sworn inventory made, 18-28 May, 1644, by Gov. William Bradford, assistant Thomas Prence, and the Rev. John Reyner, and recorded in the Plymouth Colony 'Book of wills', vol. 1, pp. 53-59."
"I, in each case, prefix, in ipsissimis verbis, the language of the inventory, with the price affixed, following this by my suggestion of what the book probably was, and, when known, adding where it may now be found."--Introd.