Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller.

Provides a brief biography of Michael Perry (1666-1700) and supplies details of his bookselling business in Boston, Massachusetts, during 1694-1700. Using Perry's estate inventory, printed here, the author provides insight into the publishing business as well as the reading habits and choices of 17th-century Bostonians.