[Conyers, Richard] A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, from various Authors

[Conyers, Richard]. A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, from various Authors: for the use of Serious and Devout Christians of every denomination. York: Printed by and for Thomas Wilson and sons, High-Ousegate, 1837. The Thirteenth Edition, Revised and Amended. [9970]

Full leather, joints fine, worn at the ends & corners, 14 x 8.5 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches). (i)-xii, (1)-261, [2] pp., complete, tight. Very good.

This edition has 374 hymns and 6 doxologies. This collection by Richard Conyer was first published in 1767 and was one of the first hymnals of the Evangelical Revival of the days of Whitefield and Wesley.

"It contained 274 hymns plus five doxologies. There was no preface, and no compiler's name. The authors most represented were Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, but it also included a hymn by Thomas Olivers (The God of Abraham praise) and an altered John Wesley translation, 'O love, thou bottomless abyss." - "Conyers’s Collection of Psalms and Hymns." The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press. Web. 6 Mar. 2024..

Both hymns mentioned in the description are included in this later edition.

Richard Conyers (1725-1786), Anglican evangelical minister whose hymn-book compilation has been called a precursor to the Olney Hymns. Amongst his many labors for Christ, he was an itinerant preacher in Yorkshire for the Countess of Huntingdon, and in 1768 with George Whitefield.

The printing firm Thomas Wilson & Sons were in business in York, England from about 1810 to 1842. They were associated with the Friends, or Quakers, and printed many pieces for their denomination.

With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.