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John Endicott, 1660-61
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Rare pamphlet on religious persecution in the American colonies
John Endicott, 1660-61
ENDICOTT, John (c.1600-1664). The Humble Petition and Address of the General Court Sitting at Boston in New England, unto the High and Mighty Prince Charles the Second. [London,] 1660-61.
The White Kennett copy of the first edition of a rare pamphlet on religious persecution in the American colonies. Upon news of the restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660, Massachusetts Bay governor John Endicott addressed the new monarch with a plea for religious tolerance for the Puritan colonists. Endicott doubles down, however, on his own draconian treatment of the Quakers, which had only months earlier culminated in the execution of the Boston Martyrs—including Mary Dyer, a former follower of exiled prophetess Anne Hutchinson. While the King granted their petition and promised a benign rule, the pamphlet also provoked a number of rebuttals from American Quakers. This copy is from the collection of White Kennett, whose 1713 Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia is one of the earliest works of bibliography dealing exclusively with Americana. Sabin records imprints at both London and Cambridge, but the Cambridge copy is likely an error on the part of Evans. This is only the second copy to appear at auction in over 50 years, according to ABPC and RBH. Church 566; JCB (3) III:43; Sabin 33696; Streeter 629.
Quarto (178 x 130mm). 4 leaves (repairs where title page was once folded, lower edges of all leaves strengthened, top margin shaved touching one page number, some soiling). 19th-century calf by Francis Bedford (front board detached). Provenance: White Kennett (1660-1728, collector and Bishop of Peterborough; ownership inscription on title and final leaf).
John Endicott, 1660-61
ENDICOTT, John (c.1600-1664). The Humble Petition and Address of the General Court Sitting at Boston in New England, unto the High and Mighty Prince Charles the Second. [London,] 1660-61.
The White Kennett copy of the first edition of a rare pamphlet on religious persecution in the American colonies. Upon news of the restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660, Massachusetts Bay governor John Endicott addressed the new monarch with a plea for religious tolerance for the Puritan colonists. Endicott doubles down, however, on his own draconian treatment of the Quakers, which had only months earlier culminated in the execution of the Boston Martyrs—including Mary Dyer, a former follower of exiled prophetess Anne Hutchinson. While the King granted their petition and promised a benign rule, the pamphlet also provoked a number of rebuttals from American Quakers. This copy is from the collection of White Kennett, whose 1713 Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia is one of the earliest works of bibliography dealing exclusively with Americana. Sabin records imprints at both London and Cambridge, but the Cambridge copy is likely an error on the part of Evans. This is only the second copy to appear at auction in over 50 years, according to ABPC and RBH. Church 566; JCB (3) III:43; Sabin 33696; Streeter 629.
Quarto (178 x 130mm). 4 leaves (repairs where title page was once folded, lower edges of all leaves strengthened, top margin shaved touching one page number, some soiling). 19th-century calf by Francis Bedford (front board detached). Provenance: White Kennett (1660-1728, collector and Bishop of Peterborough; ownership inscription on title and final leaf).
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