Boston, for Samuel A. Gerish, 1729
The Life of the Very Reverend & Learned Cotton Mather.
First edition of this classic of American hagiography, the life of the most celebrated and prolific New England pastor, Cotton Mather, written by his son Samuel. The biography of a “star” clergyman written soon after his death became a well-established genre in colonial America and found a wide audience. As..... More