Phillips, Philip. New Hymn and Tune Book: an Offering of Praise for the Methodist Episcopal Church; with Appendix to the Offering of Praise. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866. First Edition. [10981]
Black cloth, blind stamped, gilt titles to spine, 9 x 6 inches, tight. 432, 63, [1] pages, last few leaves with thin stain in the top margin. The Appendix with its own title page, same imprint. Very good. Hardcover.
The main part of the book has the tunes to the left and the words to the right, as you look at the book opened. Music is four parts, round notes. The Appendix has tunes and words on the same page, as in a modern hymnal.
Philip Phillips (1834-1894), born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Methodist song evangelist and hymn writer. “He early developed musical talent, and at the age of nineteen devoted his whole time to musical science and practice. His first published work was ‘Early Blossoms,’ of which 20,000 copies were sold…Mr. Phillips, during the Civil War, entered earnestly into the work of the Christian Commission, and published ‘Hymn Songs’ for the Soldiers’ Orphan Home at Iowa, the proceedings being devoted to that object…In 1866 he became musical editor of the Methodist Book Concern, in New York, and issued the ‘New Hymn and Tune Book’ and the ‘Standard Singer.’” – Methodist Encyclopedia. Phillips toured the world in the 1870’s.
