(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) John Fox The Door of Heaven Opened

Sale 2708 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 500

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) John Fox. The Door of Heaven Opened and Shut. [2], 99, 90-170 pages. 16mo, contemporary calf, worn; leaves O2-3 misbound after M4, lacking leaves Y2-3, crudely restitched and coming disbound, wear and moderate dampstaining, lacking free endpapers; early owners' signatures on front pastedown. Newport, RI: James Franklin, 1731

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Second American edition (preceded by the 1676 London and 1709 Boston printings). James Franklin had employed his younger brother Benjamin as an apprentice in the years before he started the first press in Rhode Island in 1727. Alden, Rhode Island 21; Evans 3420.