How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

The Charter Granted by his Majes(ty) King Charles (II.) To the Governour & Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New-England...
New-London: Printed and Sold by Timothy Green, 1718. First edition. 4to. (ii), 6 pp. Full modern brown calf, red and black leather spine labels, stamped in gilt; portions in upper right of title-page excised, touching some letters, edges of same with scattered wear; light wear along text leave edges. Evans 1952; ESTC W3774; Sabin 15726; Streeter Sale 669; Trumbull 453

An important work of Connecticut history, printed by the pioneering colonial printer Timothy Green. Green was the son of Samuel Green, one of the earliest printers in British North America, who operated the former press of his father at Harvard's Indian College--the first printing press established in what would become the United States devoted in part to indigenous-language printing. In 1713, Timothy Green was appointed official printer to the Colony of Connecticut and relocated the family press to New London, where he became responsible for printing many of the colony's laws, proclamations, sermons, and foundational historical texts.

Very rare, according to RBH only two other copies of this first edition have come to auction since 1915 (one bound in session laws, in 2015, and the Streeter-Reese copy, in 2022 and 1967). ESTC records only 11 copies (some bound with session laws).