ELIOT. 235 
Eliot (JoLii) — continued. 
Notwithstanding the comparatively largo number printed of both editions, 
but few copies have been preserved to the present time. Six copies of the New 
Testament of 1661 are known in this country. Three of these are in public li- 
braries, one of which, now in the Lenox Library, was purchased at the Briuley 
sale iu 1879 for iJlTOO. Of the first edition of the Bil)lc, over thirty copies are 
known, and nearly as many of the second edition. Most of these are iu public 
libraries. The rarity and importance of this remarkable work, tho first Bible 
printed in America, has been fully recognized only within the last twenty-five 
years. Forty years ago the original edition was priced in a well-known London 
bookseller's catalogue at 12s., and an eminent American collector purchased a 
tine copy for 20s. A copy of tho second edition was sold at the Furman 
sale in New York iu 1846 for $11. But since the sale of Corwiu's copy of the 
first edition iu 1856 for $200 the price has rapidly advanced, and good copies 
of this edition have repeatedly been sold for upwards of fl,000. 
SeeO'Callaghau's Listot Am. editions of Holy Scriptures, pp. 1-18; Thomas's 
History of Printing, 2ded., vol. 1, pp. 5:3-58, 66, 67, 73, 74,393-403; Hist. Mag., 1st 
series, vol. 2, p. 277, 305-308, vol. 3, pp. 87, 88, vol. 5, p. 59; Field's Indian Bib- 
liography, pp. 119, 120 ; Sabin's Dictionary, vol. 6, pp. 137-139 ; Francis's Life of 
Eliot, pp. 216-242; Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. vii, pp. 222-228. 
1180 [The Book of Genesis, and the Gospel of Matthew, trans- 
lated by John Eliot. Cambridge, 1655]. * 
Eliot wrote, Aug. 16, 1655: -'Genesis is printed, and we are upon M.atthew." 
(Tliorowgood's Jewes iu America, i)t. ii, p. 53.) In December, 1658, he mentions 
"those pieces that were printed, viz , Genesis and Matthew," which he "had sent 
to such as he thought had best skill in the language, and entreated their animad- 
versions, but heard not of any faults they found." (A further Accompt of thePro- 
gresse, etc., pp. 2, 3). — Trumbull. 
1181 [Psalms in Metre. 1658?] * 
In a postscript to the "Epitomy of such Exhortations as these Indians . . . 
.... did deliver," etc., sent by Eliot to the Corporal ion, Dec. 28, 1658, he wrote: 
" They have none of the Scriptures printed iu their own language, save Genesis 
and Matthew, and a few Psalmes in Meeter." (A further Accompt etc.) The 
Treasurer's account presented Sept., 1659, includes a payment "To Mr. Green, in 
part for printing the Psalmes." — Trumbull. 
1182 [The Psalter. 1663.] • 
The Commissioners, Sept. 10, 1664, write that 500 Psalters have been printed 
(Rec. U. Cols., ii, 316), and the same year there is an item in the Treasurer's ac- 
count for "priuting 9 sheets of the Psalter, at 20 shillings a sheet." This charge 
is too small to include composition, and it is probable that these 500 copies of 
the Psalms were worked from the forms used iu printing the Old Testament and 
were bound up separately. — Trumbull. 
1183 Wame Ket oohomae uketoo homaongash David. • 
[Cambridge. 16G3.] 
50 11. sm. 4=^. 
-[-[Cambridge. 1682. J .53 11. sm. 4°. Poetical translation of the Psalms into 
tho Indian language of Massachusetts. Some copies of the Psalms were issued 
separately, and passed through several editions. Marvin refers to one dated Cam- 
bridge, 1664. 8"^. pp. 50. — Sabin'H Dictionary. 
