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EARLY ELIZABETH IMPRINT OWNED BY A FUTURE HEADMISTRESS ¶ xxii, [1], 24-219, [1] p. | 18mo | A-M^12/6 N^2 | 137 x 82 mm ¶ First published in 1706, this is one of at least three dozen editions published in the 18th century, and the first printed in New Jersey. The present marks an early Elizabeth production. Shepard Kollock, whose imprints first appear in 1785, was the town's first printer. (Is it grandiose to call him the prototypographer of Elizabeth, NJ?) ¶ The author here sets out to provide his readers with pious verse. "It has been a long complaint of the virtuous and refined world," the preface begins, "that Poesy, whose original is divine, should be enslaved to vice and profaneness; that an art inspired from Heaven should have so far lost the memory of its birth-place as to be engaged in the interests of hell." --- PROVENANCE: Early ownership signatures of Henrietta Bogart, twice on the title page and at least once within the text. Our owner was almost certainly a young… Read More