The oath of a free-man
By: With a historical study by Lawrence C.Wroth and A note on the Stephen Daye Press by Melbert B.Cary, Jr.
Contributors: Wroth, Lawrence C. 1884-1970.; Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff, 1892-1941.
Series: Keepsake (American Institute of Graphic Arts) ;; 60.
Publisher: Press of the Woolly Whale
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Daye, Stephen, 1611-1668.; Oaths -- Massachusetts.
Notes: Sheet laid in: The American Institute of Graphic Arts...Keepsake no. 60. ...A historical study of the first production of the first press to be set up in what is now the United States, the Stephen Daye Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Oath was first printed in 1639.  The text...is based on the address Mr. Wroth delivered at the meeting held by the Institute on January 20, 1939, at the New York Public Library. ...To this, Melbert B. Cary, Jr., has added a note on the ... Press and a "facsimile" of the Oath as he conceives it might originally have been set.  (No copies hve ever been discovered.)...Given as a keepsake by The Press of the Woolly Whale...Mr. Cary's private press, which is responsible for the printing...