Watts, Isaac. The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, And applied to the Christian State and Worship. Sutton, (Mass.): Printed by Sewall Goodridge, for Caleb Burbank, Sold by him at Wholesale and Retail, 1808. [11067]
Full calf over wooden boards, some worming to the binding, thin piece missing at the bottom of the back board, joints with 1 inch cracks at bottom yet still secure, 15 x 9 cm (6 x 3 1/2 inches, tight. Title pages with decorative border, top with thin tear with some loss of top border. [1]-251, [1]; [1]-216 pages; the text is counted and complete. Dark stain on the ffep & tp, relatively clean elsewhere, with foxing. Good. Hardcover.
Separate title page for the Hymns, same imprint: 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, D. D.
H4, p. 31, in Benson's The American Revisions of Watts's Psalms (1903). "The Boston Revision. A separate group of editions of Watts's Psalms may be referred to as a Boston revision, so many of the type appearing there, especially with Manning and Loring. The titles of these have nothing to indicate a revision of any kind. The text is made from the original with the aid principally of the Barlow and Worcester editions. Psalms LX and LXXV present the peculiarities of the Worcester text. Other psalms vary from both that and Barlow's. An ear-mark of these editions is Psalm XXI, C. M., the title of which reads, 'Psalm XXI. Com. Metre. Altered.' The Psalms and Hymns are generally bound together."
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
