Diary of Cotton Mather
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxii, [1] 604, xiii, [1] 860pp., frontispiece map vl. 2. Original light blue buckram with gilt lettering and ruling on spines, in original dustjackets, with white lettering on spines. Frontispiece folding map of Boston in volume two.
"Cotton Mather's Diary is of interest both as the work of "a man of peculiar attainments" and as an important contribution to the history of colonial Massachusetts. As printed in a series of famous works that are American Classics, it is all of Mather's Diary that has been preserved. It is an account edited by himself and therefore comprises only what he wished to have preserved. Cotton Mather is probably the most famous of the several generations of strongminded clergy who held sway in the Massachusetts Bay colony." (Publisher)
Dustjackets with light wear along edge, small chips and creasing and lightly rubbed. Cloth lightly sunned along edges of binding. Block lightly age-toned. Good condition. Item #55494
Price: $150.00