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Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, The life & death of that deservedly famous man of God, Mr John Cotton, : late teacher of the church of Christ, at Boston in New-England.

Norton, John, 1606-1663 · 1658 · London : printed by Tho. Newcomb for Lodowick Lloyd, and are to be sold at his shop next the Castle-Tavern in Cornhill · 2 pictures

A 1658 London funeral biography by John Norton, printed by Tho. Newcomb for bookseller Lodowick Lloyd, memorialising the Puritan minister John Cotton of Boston in New England for an English Puritan readership. The two pictures are a printer's coat of arms with a helmet, crest and motto ribbon reading Gaudeo, and a black-on-cream ornamental strip of scrolling vines around urn and fruit motifs, which a designer could use for heraldic crests or dense botanical border work.

Cotton, John, 1584-1652 · Puritans -- England -- Biography · Booksellers' catalogs -- Great Britain -- 1658 · Imprint 1658

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