Notes: [1] This copy of the Eliot Bible was bound in the same dark blue morocco gilt as other presentation copies sent to benefactors in England, which were sold at auction at Christie’s New York on December 19, 1986. Its presence in the Chatsworth Library strongly suggests it was presented to William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire. Cavendish was an associate of Robert Boyle, who was president of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, which sponsored the Bible’s publication. [2] The Chatsworth Library bookplate is present on the front pastedown. See also, Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth, vol. 1 (London: Chiswick Press, 1879), 180; and James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891), 144. [3] Christie, Manson, and Woods, Catalogue of Important Early Printed Books from the Chatsworth Collection (London), June 30, 1958, Lot 8. [4] Tonner’s bookplate is present on the front pastedown. The library was eventually part of a larger bequest to the Lutheran Church in America. See Estate of Tonner, 353 Pa. Super. 1 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1986). The “Tonner Collection” was eventually transferred to the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1988, where it was housed over the next 25 years. The school sold the Eliot Bible, along with other items in the collection, in 2013 to raise funds for the Lutheran Church. See Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Report of Actions of the Church Council (April 9, 2014), 2. [5] Sotheby’s, Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana (New York), December 5, 2013, Lot 173.

Selected References:

James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891).