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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
"THE LARGEST WORK UP TO THIS TIME PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES" (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Willard, Samuel. A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures. [1], iv, 3, [3], 914, [1] pages. Folio, contemporary calf, moderate wear, crudely rejointed; lacks frontispiece as usual, serious dampstaining and sticking affecting last 20 leaves only, last leaf including list of Willard's works defective; bookplate on front pastedown, early owners' inscriptions on title page and elsewhere including William Johnson (1726), from Anna Moody to her son Cutting Moody (1828), and Elizabeth Kelly (1837). Boston, 1726
The early owners appear to have been residents of Newbury, MA. The Rev. William Johnson (1706-1772) graduated from Harvard in 1727 and was a lifelong Newbury resident; he does not appear on the extensive subscriber list. "The first folio volume, other than Laws, and the largest work up to this time printed in the United States"--Evans 2828. Sabin 104075, Streeter sale II:675.
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