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Charles Bancroft

Best known for the political and historical work The Footprints of Time, this little-documented author left behind writing that spans government, history, hymnody, and later popular fiction. The scattered record adds a bit of mystery to a bibliography that reaches across very different genres.

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The Footprints of Time And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

The Footprints of Time And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

by Charles Bancroft

About the author

Charles Bancroft is a fairly obscure author, and the available public record is limited. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of The Footprints of Time, while library and bookselling records also connect his name with works such as The Selection from the Psalms of David and Hymns Intended, Principally, as a Supplement to the Psalms in Common Use in the Church of England, as Contained in the Prayer Book.

Bookseller listings also attribute later titles including The Architect and Masterplan to a Charles Bancroft. Because the sources available here are mainly catalog and retailer records rather than a full biographical profile, it is hard to say with confidence whether all of these books belong to the same writer or to more than one author with the same name.

What does come through clearly is the range attached to the name: history and government on one side, religious writing on another, and modern fiction on the other. That mix makes Charles Bancroft an intriguing figure for readers who enjoy authors whose trail survives more in their books than in personal biography.