Psalterium Americanum
Subtitle: the Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original, but all in blank verse : fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches : which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it, and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it : whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional
Contributors: Kneeland, Samuel, 1697-1769, printer; Eliot, Benjamin, 1665-1741, bookseller; Gerrish, Samuel, -1741, bookseller; Henchman, Daniel, 1689-1761, bookseller; Edwards, John, -1725, bookseller; Thornton, John Wingate, 1818-1878, former owner; Wigglesworth, Edward, approximately 1693-1765, former owner; Cutter, Abram Edmands, 1822- former owner; Abbots, Thomas, former owner; Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758, former owner; Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Printed by S. Kneeland, for B. Eliot, S. Gerrish, D. Henchman, and J. Edwards, and sold at their shops
Published: 1718
Place of publication: Boston in N.E
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Psalmody
Other titles: Thomas Prince Collection and Library of the Old South Church.
Work titles: Bible. Psalms. English. Mather. 1718
Notes: Without music.

Attributed to Cotton Mather by Evans and Holmes.

Signatures: A-2F́ı.

Some copies with Q4 signed Q3; 2E2 signed 2D2.

Headpieces; woodcut factotum initials.

Errors in paging: p. 121, 214-215 misnumbered 221, 114-115.

Errata note, p. 426.

English short title catalogue, W5126

Evans, C. American bibliography, 1946

Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 314

Cataloged 20180411 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20180412 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.364.44 bound in contemporary sprinkled sheepskin paneled in blind. Spine rebacked in modern goatskin. Autograph of John Wingate Thornton, dated June 15th, 1852 on front pastedown. Bookplate of John A. Lewis on front pastedown. Bookplate of Mrs. John A. Lewis on rear pastedown. Autograph on front pastedown: "John Andre[ws?]" (partially obscured). Embossed stamp of Wingate Thornton on final front flyleaf at front. BPL perforation stamp on title page. Autograph of Edward Wigglesworth, dated 1719, at head of title page. Biographical inscription regarding Wigglesworth, in the hand of Wingate Thornton, on verso of facing flyleaf. Q4 signed Q3; 2E2 signed 2D2. Prospectus for this edition (ESTC W9734) bound in after title page and cataloged separately under the same call number. Acquired May, 1890.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.99b.155 bound in 19th-century blue goatskin paneled and tooled in gilt and blind. Red goatskin doubloures. Autograph of Abram E. Cutter on front flyleaf recto. BPL embossed stamp on title page. Ink stamp of the estate of Abram E. Cutter, dated Aug., 1907, on title page verso. Autograph of Thomas Abbots, dated 1774, on C4 recto. Newspaper clippings bound-in between D5/D6. Dealer's description tipped in at back. Q4 signed Q3. Acquired ca. 1907. Housed in a blue slipcase.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.14.29 quarterbound in goatskin and papier tourniquet. Bookplate of the BPL Thomas Prince Library. Prospectus for this edition (ESTC W9734) bound-in at front and cataloged separately under the same call number. Leaf with manuscript excerpt from Mather's Triparadisus, in the hand of Thomas Prince, bound in between prospectus and A1. Autograph of Thomas Prince, dated 1718, on title page verso, with bookplate of the New-England Library. Marginal annotations in pencil, with ink manicules. Q4 signed Q3; 2E2 signed 2D2.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.14.16 bound in contemporary sprinkled sheepskin paneled in blind. Spine rebacked in modern goatskin. Bookplate of the BPL Thomas Prince Library. "J. Sewall" inscribed on front flyleaf recto.