1872. · Richmond
by [Choctaw Language]
Richmond, 1872.. 252pp. 16mo. Contemporary sheep and marbled boards. Spine and corners worn, ends chipped. Internally clean. Very good. Styled the "sixth edition" on the titlepage. Hargrett credits this work to Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington, first published in Boston in 1830. Missionaries among the Choctaw for decades, they are responsible for a number of works in the Choctaw language. The hymns, with translator's initials at the end of each, take up the first two hundred pages, followed by the Articles of Faith, the baptism and marriage rituals, twenty-five pages of hymns in English, and an index of first lines. GILCREASE-HARGRETT, p.123. PILLING, MUSKHOGEAN, pp.99-100. SABIN 12867 (ref).
(Inventory #: WRCAM52593)