Watts, Isaac; Bayley, Daniel. The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, And applied to the Christian state and worship bound with The Essex Harmony containing a Collection of Psalm Tunes. Boston | NewburyPort: William M'Alpine | Daniel Bayley, 1771 & 1772. [9813]
Two books bound together as one. Full leather, worn, no spine title label, front board detached, some red rot at the edges. 14.5 x 8.5 cm (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches), inscriptions on front and back end papers, described below.
The Psalms of David has the 1771 William M'Alpine imprint, and (1)-vi., (7)-324 pp. (of 328); lacking the last two leaves of the Table of First Lines.
The Essex Harmony, "Printed and Sold by the Author in NewburyPort & by most Booksellers in Boston, 1772". All leaves are engraved, beginning with title page, (i) Lesson & Table; (1-14), center leaf detached. Lacks the last two leaves (pp. 15-18). The music is in round notes in either three or four parts. Good. Full leather.
Watts is the twenty-fifth edition, AI 42297. The Bayley item is no. 66 in American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698-1810 and is the third edition of The Essex Harmony, AI 12319.
"Eben.r Pardie's" on ffep; inscription on front paste-down, "Gift of Miss Ann Prichard, A worthy respectable Maiden Lady Aged about 27, Isaac Knap, 1837-May 29, Newbury Port, Massachusetts."
Ebenezer Pardie (1732-1776), b. East Haven, CT; d. Whiteplains, NY, from wounds suffered in battle. Pardie was a private soldier in Captain Rogers' company, raised at Cornwall, CT, in response to General Washington's call for troops to defend against Lord Howe's army at New York city.
"Isaac Knap Jr., 1843 February, Very Cold" on rfep; the final paste-down reads "1771 Daniel Baily, was Clerk and Organist in S. Paul Church in N.Port, he performed to the admiration of all our harts; now we have the fourth Generation that few Excel = NB No friend nor mother. 1837. Doctor Bass is as fine a Man as ever wore the White Robe, Saint: Church."
The Daniel Bayley (Jr), (1755-1799) referred to here as the organist at St. Paul's beginning in 1776, and was the son of our author, Daniel Bayley (1729-1792). The elder Bayley was clerk of the church, and at various time earned a living as a "musician, printer, publisher, potter, and shopkeeper." - ibid.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.