[Watts, Isaac; Barlow, Joel]. Psalms, carefully suited to the Christian Worship in the United States of America: being and Improvement of the old Version of the Psalms of David; Allowed by the reverend Synod of New-York and Philadelphia, to be used in Churches & Private Families. Hagerstown: Printed and Sold by Jacob D. Dietrick, and Sold at his Book-Store, Winchester, (Virginia), 1806. [11009]
Full calf, worming, cut-marks, illegible title label, boards firmly attached, 14 x 8.5 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches). Illegible inscription in brown ink on the front paste-down, free end paper with worming; lacks the second free end paper (blank). [i-xii], [13]-148, 151-152, 149-150, 153-316 pp. One leaf bound out of order (149-150); lacks two leaves of text, pp. 317-320; p. 197 mislabeled as 179. Good. Hardcover.
The first twelve pages includes an "Index: Table to Find a Psalm."
This is Joel Barlow's revision of Watts, approved by the Presbyterian Synod of New York and Philadelphia in 1787. This edition is not in Benson's The American revisions of Watts's Psalms.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
