?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
THE SOLE SURVIVING COPY? (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Janeway, James. A Token for Children, being an Exact Account of the Conversion,Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children. [2], x, 33, [5], 46, ii, 38 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, lacking bottom inch of backstrip; hinges split, tightly trimmed to just under 5 1/2 inches, browned, some edges chipped and worn with minor loss of text, minor dampstaining, several leaves defective, lacking 6 leaves plus an indeterminate number at the end; embossed stamp on title page of George C. Dempsey, Boston, Mass. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1752
In three parts, the last being Cotton Mather''s "A Token for the Children of New England." Bristol B1570 describes the pagination of the final part of this edition as "38+ pages," based on a copy privately owned by P.E. Clapp and shown to the New York Public Library in 1947. This same copy was apparently sold at a City Book Auction sale, 29 November 1947, lot 74. Welch lists this edition as 665.5 without listing any library holdings, and apparently based his entry on Bristol, though he incorrectly transcribed the pagination to read 384 pages. We are offering what appears to be Clapp''s copy. This edition not in Evans, Rosenbach, Sabin, ESTC, WorldCat, or previous auction records, suggesting that this may be the only surviving copy.
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