The Mind Creative FEB 2014
The Bay Psalm Book
The Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in British North
America. The book is a metrical Psalter, first printed in 1640 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Psalms in it are metrical
translations into English. The translations are not particularly
polished, and not one has remained in use today. It went through
several editions and remained in use for well over a century. One
of eleven known surviving copies of the first edition sold at auction
in November 2013 for $14.2 million, a record for a printed book.
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