Bay Psalm Book.- Mather (Richard) and William Tompson.

Bay Psalm Book.- Mather (Richard) and William Tompson. A Modest & Brotherly Answer To Mr. Charles Herle his Book, against the Independency of Churches, first edition, title within typographic border, final blank leaf present, some soiling, marginal browning and light staining, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [Wing M1274; Sabin 46781; Church 463], 4to, Printed for Henry Overton, 1644.

⁂ The author, father of Increase Mather, was one of the "thirty learned and pious Ministers" who worked on the translation of the various psalters brought to New England which became the Bay Psalm Book, printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640, the first book printed in North America. Mather had arrived in New England in 1635 and became pastor of the church at Dorchester.