Songs of Zion: A Manual of the best and most popular Hymns and Tunes, for Social and Private Devotion. New York & Boston: American Tract Society, 1851. [10586]
Faded brown cloth, boards stamped in blind, spine in gilt, 15.2 x 9 cm (6 x 3 1/2 inches), binding dull, edge-worn, joints good. 192 pp., light foxing. Very good. Hardcover.
Date taken from the copyright page. 200 selections with round-note music and indices.
"It is a pleasure to acknowledge the Christian liberality of various living composers and the respected publishers of their valuable works, in generously allowing the insertion of their choicest copyright tunes in this unpretending selection. Such acknowledgements are especially due to two whose praise is in all the churches, Lowell Mason, Esq., by whom one third of all the tunes in the book were composed or arranged, and Thomas Hastings, Esq., who has gviven many of his choicest tunes and aided in preparing the work for the press; also to Mr. W. B. Bradbury and others." - Preface.
