Thomas Prince, 1736

PRINCE, Thomas (1687-1758). A Chronological History of New-England in the form of Annals. Boston: Kneeland & Green, 1736.

The S.L.M. Barlow copy of an important early history of New England. Prince was one of the first great collectors of American history and literature, and this book reflects his antiquarian interests. His "New England Library" contained five Bay Psalm Books. This volume is complete in and of itself, though a "Volume II" was published in 1755 as Annals of New England. It is from the library of S.L.M. Barlow, whose collection sold in February 1890, and later passed into the hands of Benjamin DeForest Curtiss, who donated it as part of his book collection to the Watertown Library Association. "Our most scholarly colonial work" (Howes). Sabin 65585.

(160 x 92mm) Purple morocco gilt, all edges gilt; slipcase. Provenance: Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow (1826-1889; bookplate) – Benjamin DeForest Curtiss (1851-1922; bookplate) – Watertown Library (bookplate).