A brief history of the vvar with the Indians in New-England. : From June 24. 1675. (when the first English-man was murdered by the Indians) to August 12. 1676. when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the war, was slain. Wherein the grounds, beginning, and progress of the war, is summarily expressed. Together with a serious exhortation to the inhabitants of that land.
A brief history of King Philip's War in New England, written by the Puritan minister Increase Mather and printed in London in 1676 for a readership in England, drawing on a New England original. The first picture is a bust engraving of a bearded-collared clergyman with long curled hair, and the second is a woodcut of an oval seal showing a standing figure with bow and arrows set among trees, inscribed with the colony's Latin legend.
