The Simple Cobler of Aggavvamm in America. Willing to help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. And as willing never to bee paid for his work, by Old English wonted p…

[xii], 132, [8] pp. Cloth spine and corners, decorated paper over boards, matching decorated endpapers. 1905 reissue of the 1647 fourth edition, with facsimiles of title page, preface, and head-lines, and the exact text, and an essay Nathaniel Ward and The Simple Cobler by Thomas Franklin Waters. Ward is most well-known as a Puritan clergyman and pamphleteer, and the author of the first set of laws adopted in New England (The Body of Liberties, 1641), which many credit as an influence on the United States Constitution. This, his second book, is "in spite of its bitterness, and its lack of toleration... full of quaint originality, grim humor and power... probably the most interesting literary performance" in the colonies during the first half of the 17th century (Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Transplanting of Culture 1607–1650).