Excerpts from the Greate Book

Title page of the 1603 edition of Seven Treatises by Richard Rogers.

The book handed down from John Cory of Southold was titled Seven Treatises. When James Enos Cory examined and researched the book in the early twentieth century, the title page of the book, published in London in 1603, was missing (image above is from a copy of the book at Cambridge University). He paid a visit to the Librarian of Congress to find out the title. This and other fun facts (and some fallacies) can be read in a booklet titled Excerpts from the Greate Book compiled by Marge Chilson in 1991. I've scanned the booklet and included a brief introduction of my own in the pdf file at Google Docs. For a more in depth analysis, see The Great Book of John Cory.