Hymns and spiritual songs

  • Glasgow: Andl. Kerr script, 1815
Glasgow: Andl. Kerr script, 1815. 32mo (approx. 4½" x 2¾"), 132 pages of neat manuscript containing the lyrics of 118 songs, many from Isaac Watts. Bound before: The Psalms of David in metre: translated and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations. More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text, than any heretofor. Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1812; pp. [106], 26; engraved frontispiece; text laid out in horizontal triple columns. Together 2 parts (1 manuscript, 1 printed) in 1, contemporary full straight-grain maroon morocco, double gilt rules on covers, smooth spine laid out in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2. Lightly rubbed; very good, sound and clean.

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Title

Hymns and spiritual songs

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Publisher

Andl. Kerr script: Glasgow

Date

1815


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