vvhole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the churches of God] ...
Contributors: Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.; Eliot, John, 1604-1690.; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.; Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.; Day, Stephen, 1594?-1668, printer.; Day, Matthew, d. 1649, printer.; Van Sinderen, Adrian, 1887-1963, former owner.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Imprinted [by S. Daye
Published: 1640
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases, English.; Music in churches.; Psalmody.
Other titles: Bay Psalm book; Whole Booke of Psalmes ...
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Bay Psalm book
Notes: The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by John Cotton. Cf. Zoltan Haraszti, The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p. 12-27.

Printed at the press in Cambridge, Mass., supervised by Stephen Day (variously Daye). Day's son Matthew may have been responsible for the actual printing. Cf. ESTC.

Title from the Bay Psalm book, a facsim, reprint of the first ed. of 1640 [Chicago, 1956].

"Faults escaped in printing."--p. [295].

LC copy imperfect: t.p. and 18 leaves wanting.

LC copy accompanied by envelope containing related clippings, photocopies, and notes related to LC's copy, ca. 35 items.

Evans 4

ESTC (RLIN) W15144

NUC pre-1956 NBi 0026282

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

LC copy is the Van Sinderen copy, described in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, v. 24, 1967, p. 186-[187], 204-205; see also Zoltán Haraszti, The enigma of the Bay Psalm book [Chicago, 1956] chapter X.