Primary Works

The Bay Psalm book, a facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1640. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1956. BS1440 .B4 (E-Text)

The New England primer; a history of its origin and development with a reprint of the unique copy of the earliest known edition and many facsimile illustrations and reproductions. Ed. Paul Leicester Ford. NY: Teachers College, Columbia U, 1962. PE1119.A1 N43 (E-Text)

The Bay Psalm Book: Selected Bibliography

Amory, Hugh. "'Gods Altar Needs Not Our Pollishings': Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book." Printing History 13.2 (1990): 2-14.

Barnstone, Willis. "Misalliance of Theory and Practice or Parable of the Bay Psalm Book." Translation Review 32-33 (1990): 22-26.

Dorenkamp, J.H. "The Bay Psalm Book and the Ainsworth Psalter." Early American Literature 7 (1972): 3-16.

Hall, David D. Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005.

Haraszti, Zoltan. The enigma of the Bay Psalm book. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1956. BS1440 .B415 H3

Holtgen, Karl J. "New Verse by Francis Quarles: The Portland Manuscripts, Metrical Psalms, and the Bay Psalm Book." English Literary Renaissance 28.1 (Wint 1998): 118-41.

- - -. "Francis Quarles, John Josselyn, and the Bay Psalm Book." Seventeenth Century News 34 (1976): 42-46.

Morris, Amy M. E. Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005.

Nietz, John. Old Textbooks. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1961.

Stallings, Louise R. "The Unpolished Altar: The Place of the Bay Psalm Book in American Culture." DAI 38 (1978): 6730A-31A.

Turner, Maxine. "Three Eighteenth-Century Revisions of the Bay Psalm Book." New England Quarterly 45 (1972): 270-77.

The New England Primer: Selected Bibliography

Cohen, Daniel A. "The Origin and Development of the New England Primer." Children's Literature 5 (1976): 52-57.

Crain, Patricia. The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2000.

New, Elisa. "'Both Great and Small': Adult Proportion and Divine Scale in Edward Taylor's 'Preface' and The New-England Primer." Early American Literature 28.2 (1993): 120-32.

Watters, David H. "'I Spake as a Child': Authority, Metaphor and The New-England Primer." Early American Literature 20.3 (Wint 1985-86): 193-213.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 1: Early American Literature to1700 - The Bay Psalm Book (1640) and The New England Primer (1683? 1690)." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/bay_psalm.html (provide page date or date of your login).  

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