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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ted by religion; and the early issues of the press were almost entirely religious in character. The first monument of American scholarship and printing ability, for instance, is The Holy Bible . . . translated into the Indian language, Cambridge, 1663. Six years later from the same press appeared what seems to be our first original book not strictly religious in character, Nathaniel Morton's New England's Memorial. Moreover this work announces that it is Printed for H. Usher of Boston. Urian Testaments complete, issued in 1743. See also Book III, Chap. XXIX. As the preface stated, this was the first time in the Western Hemisphere that the Scriptures had been printed in a European language; the Bible of John Eliot (Cambridge, 1661-1663), had been a translation and adaptation in the language of one of the North American Indian tribes. Saur's Bible, containing 1272 pages, was printed in quarto form, on paper manufactured in Germantown and with German types imported from Frankfort