The Bay Psalm Book: A Facsimile by Diarmaid MacCulloch (English) Hardcover Book

By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Introduction by Diarmaid MacCulloch (with Bibliography and Endnotes) Facsimile. Author Diarmaid MacCulloch. Wonderful opportunity to own a piece of religious history. Every page of this extraordinarily influential book, including the translators’ preface, is faithfully reproduced in this stunning facsimile.

The Bay Psalm Book – 9781851244140

ISBN-13: 9781851244140, 978-1851244140. Every page of this extraordinarily influential book, including the translators preface, is faithfully reproduced here, complete with original printers errors and binding marks.

The Bay Psalm Book

The first book printed in North America, this 1640 translation of the Psalms of David was made for the Massachusetts Puritans. Communal singing of the psalms held a unique importance for the pioneers and their Psalter is in rhyming metrical verse. It was designed not for elegance but, as MacCulloch writes in his introduction, to […]