Bay Psalm Book(1640)
The first bond work printed in the American colonies, The Bay Psalm
Book (The Whole Booke of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English
Meter) is a metrical translation of the Psalms. Thirty
Massachusetts Bay Colony ministers including John Eliot, Richard
Mather, and Thomas Welde labored on the work. It was published in
1640 in a printing of 1,700 copies by Stephen Daye of Cambridge,
the owner of the first printing press in the colonies.
