Roger Williams & John Cotton

WILLIAMS, ROGER, COTTON, JOHN. Publications of the Narragansett Club. (First Series). Volume I-[VI] (all published). Providence, R.I: Providence Press Co., 1866-74. Sm. 4to. 6 vols. Orig. cloth, printed paper labels. Some rubbing of bindings, and a little wear on upper spines; inked names on labels. Uncut. Some pencilling in text, but very good. $425.00

Sabin 51773, reporting 25 copies printed on large paper, excepting vol. 6, which was 150 copies. Our volumes, however, indicate the following number of copies printed respectively, vol. 1-6: 200, 200, 200, 170, 130, 160. Prospectuses are laid into four of the volumes, and volume 6 is the copy of Zachariah Allen, Rhode Island inventor and reformer, dated 1874.

I. Bibliographical Introduction to the Writings of Roger Williams. By Reuben A. Guild. A Key into the Language of America, by Roger Williams. Edited by James H. Trumbull. Letter of John Cotton. Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered. By Roger Williams. Edited by Guild. II. John Cotton's Answer to Roger Williams. Edited by J.L. Diman. Queries of Highest Consideration. Edited by Guild. III. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. Edited by Samuel L. Caldwell. IV. The Bloudy Tenent yet more Bloudy. Edited by Caldwell. V. George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes. Edited by Diman. VI. Letters of Roger Williams, 1632 to 1682. Now first collected. Edited by John Russell Bartlett.

DAB, under Roger Williams, comments that these volumes "reprint most of the letters and writings of Williams." In the note for John Cotton, DAB remarks that, "The pamphlets in the Williams controversies may be found in the volumes of the Narragansett Club Pubs., vols. I-IV (1866-70)."