White, Trentwell Mason; Lehmann, Paul William. Writers of Colonial New England. Boston, Mass.: The Palmer Company, 1929. [11745]
Blue cloth with blind borders and gilt titles, 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, light ringmark on front, ex university library with older markings including a perforated name stamp to the title page, "discard" stamped on the bookplate. 176 clean pp., several portraits. Good. Hardcover.
A fine introduction to the New England Puritans and other writers of colonial times.
"Reviewing here in this unique volume the line of early writers in prose and verse, the historians and biographers, the descriptive and narrative writers, the theological and religious writers, the poets and versifiers, and those who set down their many thoughts in prose, we see pass before us a mighty panorama of early American history - the history of men's minds, the trend of their thoughts, the reaches of their aspirations. To know our country we need to know the thoughts of those who played their great parts in building its foundations. Here is the dignity of simple things, the simplicity of dignified lives." - Foreword.
