Historic Boston Church Considers Sale of Hymnal

The first book printed in what would become the United States was a Puritan hymnal of psalms, sturdy enough that 11 copies that came off a wooden Cambridge press in 1640 still exist. Now, a copy of the “Bay Psalm Book” may bring millions of dollars to the Boston church that owns it.


Books and printing are marks of civilization, “so the ability to create a book in the New World was,