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Description: Portrayal of the burning of copies of William Pynchon's book The Meritous Price of Our Redemption by early colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who saw his book as heresy; it was the first-ever banned book in the New World and only 4 original copies are known to survive today.
Title: PynchonBooksBurned
Credit: The History of Springfield for the Young, by Charles Barrows
Author: F.T. Merrill, Engraver
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