(This post is a slightly edited version of the talk I gave at the Society of Early Americanists “London and the Americas, 1492-1812” conference at Kingston University, July 17-21, 2014. The presentation was part of a round table entitled “Puritan Studies … Continue reading
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Daniel Russell’s notebook is covered in a more typical binding, probably calf. The book is small and functional with only a bit of blind tooling. The label attached to the spine was placed on much later. Courtesy of the American … Continue reading
Both the size and the binding of Richard Russell’s sermon notebook are unusual for 17th-century New England. The book is significantly larger than most extant sermon notebook, and it is bound in limp vellum. You can still see the remnant … Continue reading