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| Id |
24098 |
| Category |
antiquarian book |
| Author / Composer |
WATTS, Isaac (1674-1748) |
| Title |
The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New-Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. |
| Place |
Exeter, N.H. [New Hampshire] |
| Publisher |
J.J. Williams |
| Publication Date |
1818 |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
8vo. 250, [vi] pp. |
| Description |
Calf (corners rubbed, boards scuffed all over, backstrip cracked but a sound firm binding). pp.213/214 torn without loss of text. p.[vi] comprises a list of subscribers. A split-leaf Psalter: the tunes, in three parts, bound below the Psalms in Dutch door fashion, have a separate title page "A valuable collection of Sacred Musick, adapted to the various metres in Watts", [ii], 251, [iii] pp. (not in Shaw & Shoemaker). Advertisement on verso of title signed (in print) by Moses Elliot (1775-1849). p.133 being a separate title-page for the remainder of the volume: "Hymns and spiritual songs. In three books. I, Collected from the Scriptures; II, Composed on divine subjects; III, Prepared for the Lord's Supper, By Isaac Watts, Exeter, 1818" (Shaw & Shoemaker no.46717). "A separate group of editions ... may be referred to as a Boston revision ... The text is made from the original with the aid principally of the Barlow and Worcester editions", L. Benson, The American revisions of Watts's Psalms, Philadelphia, 1903, p.30. |
| Reference |
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 - no.43338. |
| Price |
£750.00 |
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