THE | FIRST BOOK | OF MOSES CALLED | GENESIS.  [CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: PRINTED BY SAMUEL GREEN, 1655].

COLLATION: 4⁰: A-Q⁴, [128] p.  (16⁰ in Wing.)

REFERENCES: Evans, 38; Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B2756A, ESTC W17401, http://estc.bl.uk/W17401.

NOTES: From catalog: Translated into the Massachuset Indian language by John Eliot. The first nineteen chapters have English words interlined with the Algonquian text.

COPIES:

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

SHELF MARK: R4/1

DESCRIPTION AND DISTINCTIVE FEATURES: [128] p.; 19cm.  “The King’s copy of this work is thought to be unique, as no other copy has been traced. It is misdescribed on p. 144 of Marsden’s catalogue of books, “Bibliotheca Marsdeniana,” 1827 and its significance remained unknown until Dr Wilberforce Eames of the New York Public Library realised its importance.” (Catalog Record)

The only known extant copy, the 1665 Genesis at King’s College was discovered by Dr. Wilberforce Eames …. The item was included in Bibliotheca Marsdeniana (1827) though the work was entered under the year 1735 and given as printed as (Cambridge in Virginia).

**Evans cites a copy at Harvard?  Need to check Evans volume 1.

BINDING:

PROVENANCE: Bookplate of William Marsden (1754-1836).

REFERENCES: Marsden, William. Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica et Orientalis. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts (London: Printed by J.L. Cox, 1827), page 144.

Pilling, James C.  Bibliography of the Algonquian Language. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891: p. 131.  Listed as “No copy is known to be extant.”

Eames, Wilberforce. “Discovery of a Lost Cambridge Imprint” in Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.  Annual Meeting, November 1937.

CATALOG: http://library.kcl.ac.uk:80/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000366169&local_base=KINGSOPAC  

DIGITAL ACCESS: http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/eliots-genesis/