Van Deventer, Cornelius. The New-Brunswick Collection of Sacred Music; A Selection of Tunes from the most approved Authors in Europe and America. Designed Principally for the Use of Churches. New-Brunswick, N. J.: J. Terhune, 1840. Eighth Edition, Enlarged and Improved. [8840]
Leather spine with printed green paper over card, joints cracked, oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). "Daniel Lake, Dec. 6th 1840" in pencil on the title page. (i.-xii. with xii. misnumbered as viii.), (9)-186, (2) pp. Text very good, complete. Good. Hardcover.
Stanislaw 215 (under Nevius). A four-shape shape-note tunebook. The text is misnumbered in both copies of this edition that we have examined.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
