Increase Mather : The Foremost American Puritan. First Edition

MURDOCK, Kenneth Ballard. Increase Mather : The Foremost American Puritan. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1925. First Edition. Pp (6),[vii]-xv,(3),[3]-442 + portrait frontispiece [with captioned tissue guard] + 23 b&w illustration plates. 8vo (169 x 248 mm), pressed maroon cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped lettering to front board. Top edge gilt.

Increase Mather (b. June 21, 1639, Dorchester, , Boston, Massachusetts -d. August 23, 1723, Boston).

Kenneth Ballard Murdock (b. June 22, 1895, Boston - d. November 15, 1975, Newton, Massachusetts).

Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. The Mathers in England.
3. Puritan Emigrants.
4. The Mathers in New England.
5. Boyhood.
6. Harvard College : The Choice of a Life Work.
7. Experimental Years - England, Ireland, and Guernsey.
8. Beginnings in Boston.
9. The Teacher of the Second Church.
10. Public Life.
11. Literary Leader and Spokesman of the People.
12. "Illustrious Providences," and the Flight to England.
13. The Court of James the Second.
14. The Negotiation with William III.
15. The New Charter.
16. The Bostonian in London.
17. "Doleful Witchcraft."
18. Defending his Faith.
19. The First Defeat.
20. Old Age and the New Century.
21. Increase Mather.

Appendices :
A. Mather's Agency and the Plymouth Colony.
B. The Return of the Ministers upon Witchcraft.
C. List of books referred to.
D. Checklist of Mather's writings.

With Index by George B. Ives.

Front hinge slightly loose, spine faded, light wear to ends and corners, small watermark to rear corner, else very good, tight & clean. Partially unopened.50.00

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Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1925,

Year: 1925

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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