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Boston: Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West, 1790. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contemporary calf; 12mo; pp. 358, [2] (ads). Joints a bit tender; tiny chip at tail of spine. A beautiful, unrestored copy, and with Pierce family inscriptions on the endpapers. A naive painting on the FFEP records this as Benjamin Pierce's Book, 1791, and shows a man up a tree (by way of ladder), either to send apples to another man, seated below, or to read his psalms aloft, in peace -- let the viewer be the judge! There follows his calligraphic presentation in 1799 to James Pierce, who notes its use by "the society in Brattle Square," which we take to mean the (then) Congregational and (later, c. 1805-1876) Unitarian Church on Brattle Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (Their first minister, Benjamin Colman, was connected to a James Pierce, somehow by way of their interest in math.) The church distinguished itself by its somewhat relaxed attitude toward rigid Calvinist practices, and by its array of important ministers:… Read More