Blue-gray cloth with gilt-lettered spine
1979 · Boston:
by Alden, John
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1979 One of eighty-seven copies printed and bound by the Stinehour Press. The Eliot Indian Bible leaf in this copy is from the Book of Psalms and contains Psalms 93-96. Blue-gray cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Small quarto. Title-page printed in black and blue. Original Eliot Indian Bible leaf tipped-in after title Bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy in a near fine glassine dust jacket with a few small nicks. In a blue cloth slipcase, slightly worn. In a day when the motives and good will of the Puritan founders of New England regarding the Indians they found there have been questioned and even disparaged, it is reassuring to recall anew that testament of their faith represented by the Eliot Indian Bible of which these pages enfold a leaf" (p. 1).
(Inventory #: 16466)