Elizabeth Glover
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Elizabeth Glover was an English woman and first American publisher. She established the first printing press in the Thirteen Colonies, located next to the nascent Harvard College in Cambridge, Massach
The original site of Elizabeth's house in Cambridge, MA, with a sign explaining what the house is next to it.
The grave of Dunster in Massachusetts. Dunster was the second husband of Elizabeth and the first president of Harvard University. He died in 1654.
Bay Psalm Book
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. It was t
Elizabeth Glover
…Thirteen Colonies, located next to the nascent Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she printed Oath of a Freeman, An Almenack, and the Bay Psalm Book with the help of printer Stephen Daye. She married Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard University. After Glover's death, the printing press was…
Title page of the copy of the Bay Psalm Book held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
a page of the Bay Psalm Book in the Houghton Library
The Whole Booke of Psalmes imprinted 1640 title page