Watts, I. & A Teacher of Psalmody. The Psalms and Hymns of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. To which are added, a Selection of Hymns from various Authors; With Directions for Musical Expression Arranged and Adapted to the Music of The Choir, Or Union Collection of Church Music. Sandbornton, N. H.: Published by L. Dow Pierpont | D. V. Moulton, Printer, 1833. First Edition. [9928]
Full leather binding, spine decorated in gilt, rubbed & worn with partial crack to front joint as well as a center crease to the backstrip with 2.5 cm split at bottom. 9.2 x 5.7 cm (3 5/8 x 2 3/8 inches), dark marbled end papers, pencil call numbers on end papers. (1)-310, (1)-272, [2], (1)-192 pp., text is complete. The third title page has a horizontal tear. Good.
The copyright was held by Charles Lane & Co. The third section of "Hymns adapted to the Music of The Choir, or Union Collection" prints the tune names from that book to be used with the hymns.
The History of Sandbornton (1882) fails to mention the compiler, but notes that these books were "very neatly and substantially bound, with the pews of the Centre meeting-house numbered on the covers of many of them." (This copy is not so numbered).
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
