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The Famous Mather Byles: The Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet and Wit 1707-1788
by Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: W.A. Butterfield, 1914. 8vo maroon cloth bound hardcover with bright gilt titles on spine and cover. 258 toned pages with black and white illustrations include frontispiece of Byles. Contents include: Birth, Education, Journalistic Writings Ordination and First Marriage Events in Earlier Ministry Pastorate at Hollis Street Church Doctor Byles as a Poet Doctor Byles's Humour Dismissal from His Church Trial Before the Town Social Standing, Friendships Last Years The Byles Family Illustrations include: Dr. Mather Byles, Rev. Increase Mather, Rev. Cotton Mather, Hollis St. Church, Thomas Hollis, others. From page 1: "From the shadows of pre-Revolutionary Boston no single figure emerges in whom sympathetic historians find a greater variety of interest than in the Tory preacher, poet, and humourist, who appears commonly in our annals as the "famous" or "celebrated" Doctor Mather Byles. In days when religious discussion was acrid and local political feelings ran high and vituperation of opponents was often incredibly bitter, Mather Byles's witticisms kept Boston laughing immoderately for at least a generation, and no doubt tended not a little to the softening of asperities in the popular life..." Edgewear, bumped head and heel of spine, penciled notations inside cover. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- The Famous Mather Byles: The Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet and Wit 1707-1788
- Author
- Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- W.A. Butterfield
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- antiquarian; biography; religion; religious; reverend; preacher; poet;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Antiquarian;
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