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Uniform Title	Bible. Psalms. English. Bay Psalm book. 1640.
Title	The vvhole booke of psalmes / faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture psalmes in the churches of God..
Alternative Title	Whole Booke of Psalmes
	Bay Psalm book
Publication Info	[Cambridge, Mass. : Stephen Day], Imprinted 1640.

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Descript	[296] p.
Note	The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is usually attributed to Mather, but this is disputed by Zoltan Haraszti, who attributes it to John Cotton. Cf. Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p. 12-27.
	Printed at the press in Cambridge, Mass., supervised by Stephen Day (variously Daye). Day's son Matthew may have been responsible for the actual printing.
	Signatures: A-Ll⁴. Register includes quire 'W'.
	"Faults escaped in printing."--P. [295].

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Descript	[296] p.
Note	The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is usually attributed to Mather, but this is disputed by Zoltan Haraszti, who attributes it to John Cotton. Cf. Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p. 12-27.
	Printed at the press in Cambridge, Mass., supervised by Stephen Day (variously Daye). Day's son Matthew may have been responsible for the actual printing.
	Signatures: A-Ll⁴. Register includes quire 'W'.
	"Faults escaped in printing."--P. [295].

Subject	Music in churches.
	Psalmody.
Descript	[296] p.
Note	The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is usually attributed to Mather, but this is disputed by Zoltan Haraszti, who attributes it to John Cotton. Cf. Haraszti's The enigma of the Bay Psalm book, 1956, p. 12-27.
	Printed at the press in Cambridge, Mass., supervised by Stephen Day (variously Daye). Day's son Matthew may have been responsible for the actual printing.
	Signatures: A-Ll⁴. Register includes quire 'W'.
	"Faults escaped in printing."--P. [295].
Alt author	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.
	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.
	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
	Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.

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