The Famous Mather Byles: The Noted Boston Tory Preacher Poet, and Wit, 1707-1788 by EATON, ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON - 1914

Norwood, MA: Norwood Press, 1914. Hardcover. Good/None. 258 pp. 19 b&w illustrations. Slight wear and tear on the cover and some discoloration on the pages. Record # 604853

Boston:: W. A. Butterfield,. Very Good. 1914. Hardcover. B002DI9NRS . Illustrated. First edition. Very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. ; 258 pages .

UsedVeryGood. 1914 printing. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Book very well-preserved with age - minimal scuffing, gilt remains bright. Spine cracked, but all pages intact. Text clean, no underlining. Terrific copy overall.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Hardcover. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-22. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

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… Read More