SAYBROOK PLATFORM]. A Confession of Faith Owned and Consented to by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches in the Colony of Connecticut in New-England, Assembled by Delegation at Say Brook September 9th, 1708 . New-London: Thomas Short, 1710. Small 8 o (160 x 96 mm). (Lacking first blank, last leaf torn at upper corner with loss of some text, marginal wormtrack, some browning and dampstaining.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards (head of spine lacking); brown quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Caleb Watson (contemporary ownership inscription on last leaf). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN CONNECTICUT, AND A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT 18TH-CENTURY TEXT. The only work printed in Connecticut preceding the present is Eliphat Adams's pamphlet The Necessity of Judgment . The title of the Saybrook Platform is dated 1710 though printing did not begin until the fall, and was not finished until 1711. "The Saybrook Platform, adopted at a synod meeting called by the Connecticut legislature and held at Saybrook in September, 1708, modified the Cambridge Platform by emphasizing rule by councils of church leaders, rather than by the individual congregations within themselves. The adoption of the Saybrook Platform made the church in Connecticut practically a form of Presbyterianism and resulted in rigid orthodoxy...it was one of the most important books printed in the eighteenth century" (Streeter). The "perfected work was the famous Saybrook Platform, an elaboration of the Massachusetts Proposals of 1705 and the most complete statement of the policy of the consociation of churches which was ever put forth in New England" (Osgood, The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century III, p. 300). Thomas Short, a Boston printer, moved to New London in 1709. Early in life he had been orphaned and captured by Indians and taken to Canada. He was ransomed, probably by his brother-in-law, Bartholomew Green, who taught him his trade. He died in 1712. VERY RARE: of the 16 copies located by Johnson, all but one are in Northeast institutional libraries. The most recent copy to appear at auction was the Streeter copy in 1967. Church 844; Johnson New London Imprints 13; Miller The New England Mind from Colony to Province , pp. 266-267; Sabin 15447; Streeter II:663.
SAYBROOK PLATFORM]. A Confession of Faith Owned and Consented to by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches in the Colony of Connecticut in New-England, Assembled by Delegation at Say Brook September 9th, 1708 . New-London: Thomas Short, 1710. Small 8 o (160 x 96 mm). (Lacking first blank, last leaf torn at upper corner with loss of some text, marginal wormtrack, some browning and dampstaining.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards (head of spine lacking); brown quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Caleb Watson (contemporary ownership inscription on last leaf). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN CONNECTICUT, AND A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT 18TH-CENTURY TEXT. The only work printed in Connecticut preceding the present is Eliphat Adams's pamphlet The Necessity of Judgment . The title of the Saybrook Platform is dated 1710 though printing did not begin until the fall, and was not finished until 1711. "The Saybrook Platform, adopted at a synod meeting called by the Connecticut legislature and held at Saybrook in September, 1708, modified the Cambridge Platform by emphasizing rule by councils of church leaders, rather than by the individual congregations within themselves. The adoption of the Saybrook Platform made the church in Connecticut practically a form of Presbyterianism and resulted in rigid orthodoxy...it was one of the most important books printed in the eighteenth century" (Streeter). The "perfected work was the famous Saybrook Platform, an elaboration of the Massachusetts Proposals of 1705 and the most complete statement of the policy of the consociation of churches which was ever put forth in New England" (Osgood, The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century III, p. 300). Thomas Short, a Boston printer, moved to New London in 1709. Early in life he had been orphaned and captured by Indians and taken to Canada. He was ransomed, probably by his brother-in-law, Bartholomew Green, who taught him his trade. He died in 1712. VERY RARE: of the 16 copies located by Johnson, all but one are in Northeast institutional libraries. The most recent copy to appear at auction was the Streeter copy in 1967. Church 844; Johnson New London Imprints 13; Miller The New England Mind from Colony to Province , pp. 266-267; Sabin 15447; Streeter II:663.
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