PSALTER The Whole Book of Psalmes : collected into English metre by T. Sternhold, I. Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to bee [sic] sung in all churches, of all the people together.

A very fine and rare example of 17th century embroidered binding, exquisitely executed in cross-stitch.

Thomas Sternhold (1500-1549) was an English courtier and the principal author of the first English metrical version of the Psalms, originally attached to the augmented Prayer Book by John Hopkins.

Provenance

This copy bears a 17th century ownership inscription on the front fly-leaf “Susan Ogden, Her Book, 1695”. The Ogden family is documented in England since the 13th century. It is possible that this binding belonged to a descendant of John Ogden (1609-1682) also called “The Pilgrim”, of British origin he settled in New England in 1641. John Ogden was a patentee of the Elizabethtown purchase in 1664, which was the first English settlement in the colony of New Jersey.