id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3105 Bay Psalm Book - Wikipedia .html text/html 2331 256 78 Title page of the copy of the Bay Psalm Book held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library In November 2013, one of eleven known surviving copies of the first edition sold at auction for $14.2 million, a record for a printed book.[6][7][8] The early residents of the Massachusetts Bay Colony brought with them several books of psalms: the Ainsworth Psalter (1612), compiled by Henry Ainsworth for use by Puritan "separatists" in Holland; the Ravenscroft Psalter (1621); and the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter (1562), of which there were several editions. 1669–1682, bound with an Edinburgh Bible, for $57,600.[21] On November 26, 2013, Sotheby's auctioned a 1640 copy owned by Boston's Old South Church; it sold for a hammer price of $14,165,000,[7] setting a new record for a single printed book.[6][8] Sotheby's confirmed that it was purchased by American financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein "who planned to loan it to libraries across the country".[6] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3105.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3105.txt