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ed and reprinted by order of the General Court holden in Boston, May 15, 1672, according to the printed statement of Edward Rawson, secretary. The imprint shows that the book was printed in Cambridge by Samuel Greene, for John Usher of Boston, in 1672. The type on the title page is included within a double rule border. Its covers are of the sort that legal books of a century ago were generally inclosed within, and the frayed edges of the leaves are the color of sienna. The leaves are untrimmpographical characters are peculiar when contrasted with the present art of type-casting, being poorly cut and liable to get out of alignment. That the Press had a considerable variety of fonts of type is apparent when one glances at this book of 1672. Mr. Greene had some strange ornamental cuts in his office, one of which embellished the first page of matter in the book. It shows two cherubs puffing their cheeks into trumpets at a grim skeleton just emerging from an open coffin. Other nota