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Ecclesiastes. : The life of the reverend & excellent Jonathan Mitchel, a pastor of the church and a glory of the colledge [sic] in Cambridge, New-England.

by: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728

Publication date: 1697

Topics: Mitchel, Jonathan, 1624-1668 -- Biography, Congregational churches -- Clergy -- Biography, Congregational churches -- Massachusetts, Catalogs, Booksellers' -- United States -- 1697, Imprint 1697

Publisher: Massachuset [Boston]; : Printed by B. Green and J. Allen, sold at the booksellers shops in Boston.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

111, [1] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)

Epistle dedicatory, pages 3-32, signed: Increase Mather

An elegy, "To the Memory of the Reverend Jonathan Mitchel", adapted from Sir Richard Blackmore by Cotton Mather, appears on pages 109-111

"Epitaphium", page 111, initialed F.D., has been attributed to Francis Drake

Two states noted. In the first, page [112] has an advertisement for books sold by Samuel Phillips. In the second, page [112] has the bookseller's advertisement and an errata statement

Signatures: A-G⁸

Bookseller's advertisement: page [1], 2nd count

Title printed within ornamental woodcut border; head and tail pieces

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