Before 1600

One percent standard: 1,000 copies

(Authors color-coded by nation of origin/publication: British Colonies, England, France, Medieval or Ancient)

1484

Fables, Aesop

(Mott. Written circa 580 BCE; first published in English in 1484. First American edition: 1750)

1561

Institutes of Christian Religion, John Calvin

(Hart. Written in 1536; translated into English in 1561. First American edition: 1813)

1560

Geneva Bible, various

(No American editions, but it was the Bible of choice for the vast majority of the first English colonists to settle in New England)

1562

Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter, Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins

(First complete edition: 1562; no American editions were ever published, but the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter was the hymbook used by most English colonists until the Bay Psalm Book's publication in 1640)

1563

Book of Martyrs, John Foxe

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1793)

ca. 1592

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe

(Mott. First English edition: 1604; first American edition: 1733)

1597

Essays, Francis Bacon

(Mott. First American edition: 1688)