A Methodist Hymn-Book: Compiled by Authority of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada. Toronto & Halifax: Methodist Book and Publishing House, 1880. [11100]
Full leather, blind stamped borders, gilt title to spine, edges rubbed, joints good, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, small "F. J." in gilt at the bottom of the front board. Free end paper (blank) detached and laid in. 270 generally clean pages, some pencil markings; all page edges gilt. Good. Hardcover.
The merger of the Wesleyan Methodists and the Methodist New Connexion of Canada in 1874 left the new church without a hymnal. A committee was formed to supply the want, and this is the result.
935 hymns, 19 doxologies, (both words only) and a selection of 23 tunes in four parts, round notes. Also, indices.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
