New Englands first fruits : in respect, first of the conversion of some, conviction of divers, preparation of sundry of the Indians. 2. Of the progresse of learning, in the colledge at Cambridge in Massacusets [sic] Bay. With divers other speciall matters concerning that countrey. Published by the instant request of sundry friends, who desire to be satisfied in these points by many New-England men who are here present, and were eye or eare-witnesses of the same
New Englands First Fruits is a 1643 London pamphlet printed for Henry Overton, reporting on the conversion of Indians and the early Harvard College in Massachusetts Bay for readers at home in England. The pictures are a marbled endpaper border framing a heraldic bookplate engraved for John Carter Brown, and a letterspaced capital title in a serif face that a designer could borrow for period-style headings.
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