Note 566 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

Good copies of the original folio edition, with the map, bring high prices. One of Brinley’s copies, said to be on large paper (though the present writer has a copy by his side much larger), brought $110. The Menzies copy (no. 1,353) sold for $125. See “The Light shed upon Mather’s Magnalia by his Diary” in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., December, 1862, pp. 402-414; Moses Coit Tyler, History of American Literature, ii. 80-83. Of the map, Dr. Douglass says (i. 362): “Dr. Cotton Mather’s map of New England, New York, Jerseys, and Pennsylvania is composed from some old rough drafts of the first discoveries, with obsolete names not known at this time, and has scarce any resemblance of the country. It may be called a very erroneous, antiquated map.” [See Editor’s note following this chapter. For some notes on the Mather Library, see Memorial History of Boston, vol. i. p. xviii. The annexed portrait of Mather resembles the mezzotint, of which a reduced fac-simile is given in the Memorial History of Boston, i. 208, and which is marked Cottonus Matherus, Ætatis suæ LXV, MDCCXXVII. P. Pelham ad vivum pinxit ab origine fecit et excud. Its facial lines, however, are stronger and more characteristic. It may be the reduction made by Sarah Moorhead from the painting, thus mentioned by Pelham, for the purpose of the engraving. It is to be observed, however, that the surroundings of the portrait are different in the engraving. This same outline, but reversed, characterizes a portrait of Mather, which belongs to the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, and which is said to be by Pelham. Paine’s Portraits, etc., in Worcester, no. 5; W. H. Whitmore’s Peter Pelham, 1867, p. 6, where the Pelham engraving is called the earliest yet found to be ascribed to that artist.—Ed.]