Mather, Increase. Testimony against prophane customs : namely, health drinking, dicing, cards, Christmas-keeping, New Year's gifts, cock-scaling, saints' days, etc.

Folger bibliographic ID: 54201
Folger call number: BV4625 .M6
Folger holdings ID: 55618

General notes

"Three hundred copies have been printed, of which two hundred are for sale." The 1687 ed. has title: A testimony against several prophane and superstitious customs, now practised by some in New-England. London, 1687

Extended title: Testimony against prophane customs : namely, health drinking, dicing, cards, Christmas-keeping, New Year's gifts, cock-scaling, saints' days, etc. / by Increase Mather ; reprinted from the 1687 ed., with an introd. and notes by William Peden, and a bibliographical note by Lawrence Starkey ...

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author: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
associated with: Peden, William (William Harwood), 1913-1999
associated with: Starkey, Lawrence