The Holy Bible it self, in some of its editions hath been affronted, with scandalous errors of the press-work; and in one of them, they so printed those words, Psal. 119. 161. Printers have persecuted me. The author of this church history ha's all the reason in the world then to be patient, tho' his work, be depraved with many errors of the press-work. The common excuse in such cases is, the distance of the author from the press; here there was the distance of a thousand leagues. Tho' the errata are mostly, but literals; and there are few, but what an intelligent, and charitable reader, would correct without any direction from the author; yet it was thought fit here, to offer a collection of them; (omitting the false-pointings, which are more numerous, and less important.) ...

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Author / Creator:Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Imprint:[Boston, Mass. : s.n., 1702]
Description:2 leaves ; 30 cm (folio)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
Local Note:Library Company copy bound with Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (London 1702).
Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints.
NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10359004
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Other uniform titles:Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Magnalia Christi Americana.
Notes:Errata list for the London, 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana.
Title from first lines of text.
"Compiled by Cotton Mather after bound copies of the Magnalia came to his hand. It was printed in Boston and added to some few copies. No copies of the errata were published with the Magnalia originally."--Holmes.
Printed in two columns.
Signatures: [A]² ([A]1 recto and [A]2 verso blank).
Bristol B235
ESTC W19208
Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 213-A
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa.: NewsBank, inc., 2010. Available via the World Wide Web. Access restricted to Readex Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800