The vvhole Booke of Psalmes
By: faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullness, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture psalmes in the churches of God. ; [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Contributors: Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.; Eliot, John, 1604-1690, tr.; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669, tr.; Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662, tr.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 4.
Publisher: Stephen Day]
Published: 1640
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Music in churches.; Psalmody.
Other titles: Whole Booke of Psalmes ..; Bay Psalm book.
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Bay Psalm book. 1640.
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 usually attributed to Mather, but this is disputed by Zoltan Haraszti, who attributes it to John Cotton. Cf. Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p. 12-27.

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

Signatures: *-2*þ́ A-Vþ́ Wþ́ X-2Lþ́ (2L4 verso blank)

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

Evans 4.

STC 2738.

Holmes, T.J.  Minor Mathers, 53-A.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4)