Search Results: forma sacra or a sacred platform by blackwell thomas

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William M'Alpine, 1774. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair+ ; No jacket. 1774 Printed by William M'Alpine for the Rev. Mr. Williams of Windham, Boston. NOT ex-library. Small hardcover is full bound in brown leather with four raised bands on spine creating five panels. The binding is intact. Hinges NOT cracked. The edges are heavily worn and rounded, exposing the boards at the tips. No lettering on spine; if there were any labels on the panels, they are gone. Minor fraying at the head of the spine. Covers are rubbed and scuffed with small stains. The front free endpaper and following flyleaf are detached but present; both are chipped at the edges. Front free endpaper has an old name in ink, partially transferred to the front endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages are in good condition, with light waviness and occasional foxing. Pages clean and unmarked. About 15 pages toward the rear are creased at the top corner tips. 339 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in… Read More

Boston: William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Windham, 1774. Very Good. Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Windham, 1774. Presumed First American Edition. 16mo; full contemporary calf, unadorned spine in six compartments; xvii,[1],xviii,vi,[i.e. vii],8-339,[1]pp. (B8 2B8 C-P8 Q4 R-2A8, collated complete). Leather a bit scuffed at extremities, a few surface scratches to boards, lacking endpapers, contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy overall. Treatise first published in 1710 under the title "Schema Sacra" to accompany the author's text "Ratio Sacra." This the first appearance in the American colonies, though another state provides the imprint "Printed and sold by William M'Alpine, at his printing-office in Marlborough-Street" (no priority). This copy includes the list of subscribers, as well as the publisher's advertisement on p. [340]. The list of subscribers includes (by our count) thirty-five women and a guy named "Mr.… Read More

Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams of Windham, 1774. xvii, [1], xviii, vii [mispaginated vi], 8-339, [1, blank] pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, worn. Toning throughout. Provenance: Daniel Plumer (early signature); Jane Plumer, Newburyport (early signature and letterpress booklabel). xvii, [1], xviii, vii [mispaginated vi], 8-339, [1, blank] pp. 8vo. With an Early American Woman's Letterpress Booklabel. With the early booklabel of Jane Plumer (1748-1832). Bristol B3698 (a variant of Evans 13155); ESTC W23140