Bibliography and the book trades; studies in the print culture of early New England.0812238370 Bibliography and the book trades; studies in the print culture of early New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . Amory, Hugh. Ed. by David D. Hall. U. of Pennsylvania Pr. 2004 174 pages $49.95 Hardcover Material texts Z473 The quality of Amory's work led to his regard as the most rigorous and meticulous historian of books and book culture of early America. In this collection of major essays Amory explores the world of seventeenth and early eighteenth century books, including the classic "The trout and the Milk: An Ethnobibliographical Essay," commentaries on the Bay Psalm Book Bay Psalm Book, common hymnal of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Written by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, it was published in 1640 at Cambridge as The Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre. and Bibles in seventeenth-century Essex county Essex County can refer to:
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