(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS). Mather, Samuel. The Life of the Very Reverend and Learned...

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS). Mather, Samuel. The Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather. [4], iv, 6, 10, 186 pages. 8vo, later sheep, worn; light toning and soiling; library bookplate and inked deaccession stamp on front pastedown, later ownership inscription on flyleaf. Boston: Samuel Gerrish, 1729

first edition. A biography which also includes a long bibliography of Mather's works, and two ad leaves soliciting subscriptions for Mather's massive Biblia Americana, which never actually made it to press until 2010. Evans 3188; Howes M409 ("aa"); Sabin 46799.