The simple cobler of Aggawam in America
Subtitle: Willing to help mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. And as willing never to be paid for his work, by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long, gratis. Therefore I pray gentlemen keep your purses
By: By Theodore de la Guard..
Publisher: Printed by John Dever & Robert Ibbitson, for Stephen Bowtell, at the signe of the Bible in Popes Head-Alley
Published: 1647
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Freedom of religion; Church history; Politics and government
Other titles: Simple cobler of Aggavvam in America; Simple cobbler of Agawam in America
Notes: Attributed to Nathaniel Ward by Wing.

Five different issues were printed in London by John Dever & Robert Ibbitson, for Stephen Bowtell in the same year.

European Americana cites this as a possible piracy of the first edition (Wing, 786).

Signatures: A-F⁴ (F4 verso blank).

"Errata at non corrigenda": pages [43-47].

Title printed within ornamental woodcut border; head pieces; initials.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), W786A

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: page 361

European Americana, 647/204

English short title catalogue, R220973

Purchase; before 1904; 477.