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New York: George Lane and Levi Scott, 1849. Hardcover. Wide 16mo. Quarter calf with gilt rules and tan printed paper over boards. 424pp. Extensive music notation. Good plus. Boards lightly edgeworn and as usual age toned and rubbed; internally tight, with light to moderate foxing throughout; front flyleaf an expert contemporary replacement. Attractive, quite handleable first edition of this thick hymnal that (to continue subtitle) "Present[s] a Great Number of Metres Than Any Book Heretofore Published" and "To Which Is Prefixed a Progressive System of Elementary Instruction for Schools and Private Tuition." Of greatest interest, perhaps, is page 373, the very first appearance in English of "Silent Night!" -- with an early translation by J.F. Warner, not the better known lyrics by Episcopal priest John Freeman Young first published in 1859. Also of interest is a 7 3/4" X 1½" blue slip tipped to top of page 33 (the first page of the actual hymnal following the instructional material) -- one full line…
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The Devotional Harmonist: A Collection of Sacred Music, Comprising a Large Variety of New and Original Tunes, Sentences, Anthems, Etc...
by Dingley, Charles (Ed)
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New York: George Lance and Levi Scott, 1851. Half Leather - Hardbound. Fair/No Dust Jacket. oblong 8vo. Copyright is 1849. 424 pages. Covers are rubbed and scuffed. Front free end leaf has been removed. Typed name on small strip of paper has been affixed to front paste down, and there is a small penciled name on the title page. Mild to sometimes moderate foxing.
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