Foster, Robert. General Collection: Hymns, Original and Selected, for the use of Christians. Portsmouth, N. H.: Printed and Sold at the Office of the Christian Herald, 1825. Second Edition - Revised. [10172]
Full brown leather with spine title label, binding tight, joints good 11.2 x 6.5 cm (4 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches). Gray spotting to the front end papers, some faint dampstains. 448 pp., counted and complete. Good.
Dowling, Hymn and Gospel Song Books of the Restoration Movement: A Bibliography, p. 62. First published 1824; "Note: This is the first part of what was designed as a Portsmouth Collection."
Foster determined after attending the seventh United States Christian Conference, to produce this hymnal.
"He would gratefully acknowledge the kindness of Elder David Millard, and others who have aided him in this work, and hopes it will contribute to the comfort, edification, and upbuilding of Christians in the new and living way, till they shall come to the New Jerusalem, and with the hundred and forty and four thousand, and an innumerable company sing, the new song forever and ever." - Preface.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
