1599. Richard de Bury's _Philobiblon_. 1608. Wycliff's _Treatises_. 1612. Captain John Smith's _Map of Virginia_. 1621. Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_. 1628. Field _On the Church_. 1633. Sandys' _Ovid_. 1634. _The University Statutes_. 1635. Chaucer's _Troilus and Cressida_ in English and Latin. 1638. Chillingworth's _Religion of Protestants_. 1640. Bacon's _Advancement and Proficience of Learning_. As we have noted, the University of Cambridge had after a long struggle established its claim to print editions of the Scriptures and other works, and like its sister University turned out some of the best work of that period. A notable book from this press was Phineas Fletcher's _Purple Island_, a quarto published in 1633. The title-page was printed in red and black, in well-cut Roman of four founts, with the lozenge-shaped device of the University in the centre, the whole being surrounded by a neat border of printers' ornaments. Each page of the book was enclosed within rules, which seems to have been the universal fashion of the trade at this period, and at the end of each canto the device seen on the title-page was repeated. The Eclogues and Poems had each a separate title-page, and two well-executed copper-plate engravings occur in the volumes. We must not close this chapter without noting that in 1639 printing began in the New England across the sea. The records of Harvard College tell us that the Rev. Joseph Glover 'gave to the College a font of printing letters, and some gentlemen of Amsterdam gave towards furnishing of a printing-press with letters forty-nine pounds, and something more.' Glover himself died on the voyage out from England, but Stephen Day, the printer whom he was bringing with him, arrived in safety and was installed at Harvard College. The first production of his press was the _Freeman's Oath_, the second an Almanac, the third, published in 1640, _The Psalms in Metre, Faithfully translated for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private, especially in New England_. This, the first book printed in North America, was an octavo of three hundred pages, of passably good workmanship, and is commonly known as the Bay Psalter--Cambridge, the home of Harvard College, lying near Massachusetts Bay. Stephen Day continued to print at Cambridge till 1648 or 1649, when he was succeeded in the charge of the press by Samuel Green, whose work will be mentioned at the end of our next chapter. [Footnote 11: _Domestic State Papers_, vol. 357, No. 172, 173; vol. 371, No. 102.] [Footnote 12: _Domestic State Papers_, vol. 354, No. 180.] CHAPTER VIII FROM 1640 TO 1700 Having at length reached what is without doubt the darkest and the most wretched period in the history of English printing, it may be well before passing a severe condemnation on those who represented the trade at that time, to remind ourselves of the difficulties against which they had to contend.