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Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1914. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight darkening to spine; slight dust soiling to textblock top. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine and front board; black borders; three emblems on front board. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 312 pp 12mo. This book begins with the Pilgrims in their English home around Scrooby and the Robin Hood country. After a fine and valuable sketch of this English environment, the story concentrates itself on William Brewster and William Bradford, before passing on to the Amsterdam episode. No recent writer has gone to work with so much fresh material on hand or given us such minute and full details of the situation and personal life of the Pilgrim congregation. The same holds true of the account of the removal to the American continent: the inception of the plan, the reasons which led to its adoption, and the difficulties amid which it was carried out. What the Pilgrims found when they arrived, how they began their new housekeeping, the social habits they developed, their food, dress, customs, and the political society they formed is also considered. The dignity and interest of the story is fully sustained to the end, while the history is continually freshened by the new contributions the author?s personal explorations inject into it. It is especially gratifying in its brief but effective allusions to the admirable sanity which prevailed in the Plymouth Colony regarding the treatment of Quakers and witches. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 013419
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Title: The Pilgrims in Their Three Homes: England, ...
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
Publication Date: 1914
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Revised Edition
