Testimony Against Prophane Customs: Namely Health Drinking, Dicing, Cards, Christmas-Keeping, New Year's Gifts, Cock-Scaling, Saints' Days, Etc. [Profane]

59, [1] pp. 8vo. Printed on laid paper with watermark. 1953 edition of 1687 original. A collection of commentaries on American social customs by Increase Mather, who criticizes drinking, dicing, cock-scaling (which apparently is what we would today call cock-fighting), etc. Introduction & notes by William Peden, bibliographical note by Lawrence Starkey. Reissue of Sabin 46752.