A. Merril Smoak, Jr., Shaped Note Tunebook Collection

The Hymn Book and Tunebook Collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.

19th Century Shaped Note Tunebooks

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Items for sale from this list will be at this link: Hymnals & Music.

 

Aikin, J. B.  The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America.  Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies.  Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, [after 1846]. [TS09]

Lacks the title page, title taken from cover, back cover recommendations dated 1846.  Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, firmly attached.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), several names, scribbles, markings on the end papers, including one of a large cent piece.  DEFECTIVE: lacking title page, 2 leaves, and rear free end papers.  Pages run (3)-230, 235-416.

Seven shaped-note system.

Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trade and a member of the Church of the Brethren.  He became a "singing master" and was the first person to produce a successful song book in the seven-shape note system, entitled The Christian Minstrel. The book went through as many as 171 editions (Jackson, White Spirituals, p. 320).  "He vigorously defended his 'invention' and his patent, which included the elimination of bass and treble clefs and the simplification of time signatures. After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations." - wikipedia

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Aikin, J. B.  The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America.  Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies.  Philadelphia: S. C. Collins, [after 1846]. [TS13]

Lacks the title page, title taken from cover, back cover recommendations dated 1846.  Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, firmly attached.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), name and 1863 date on rfep.  DEFECTIVE: lacking title page pp. 1-4, 13-16, 413-416, and rear free end papers.  Pages run 5-12, 17-412.

Seven shaped-note system.

Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trade and a member of the Church of the Brethren.  He became a "singing master" and was the first person to produce a successful song book in the seven-shape note system, entitled The Christian Minstrel. The book went through as many as 171 editions (Jackson, White Spirituals, p. 320).  "He vigorously defended his 'invention' and his patent, which included the elimination of bass and treble clefs and the simplification of time signatures. After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations." - wikipedia.

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Aikin, J. B.  The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America.  Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies.  Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, [after 1846]. [TS27]

Photocopy title page of 1855 edition tipped in at front.  Back cover recommendations dated 1846.  Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, spine very worn, joints cracked.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), lacks all free end papers.  DEFECTIVE: lacking title page, leaf 401-402, and the two leaves pp. 413-416; many edges tattered, some with loss.  Pages run (3)-400, 403-412.

Seven shaped-note system.

Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trade and a member of the Church of the Brethren.  He became a "singing master" and was the first person to produce a successful song book in the seven-shape note system, entitled The Christian Minstrel. The book went through as many as 171 editions (Jackson, White Spirituals, p. 320).  "He vigorously defended his 'invention' and his patent, which included the elimination of bass and treble clefs and the simplification of time signatures. After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations." - wikipedia.

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Aikin, J. B.  The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America.  Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies.  Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, [after 1846]. [TS41]

Lacks the title page, title taken from cover, back cover recommendations dated 1846.  Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, firmly attached.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), several names, scribbles, markings on the end papers, including one of a large cent piece.  DEFECTIVE: lacking title page, 2 leaves, and rear free end papers.  Pages run (3)-230, 235-416.

Seven shaped-note system.

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Aikin, J. B.  The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America.  Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies.  Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. | Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, Jr. 1855. [TS14]

Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, firmly attached.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), several names, poems, etc. on end papers, ffp clipped with loss at top 1 inch.  416 pp., complete text, several signatures pulled at center, 2 detached leaves.

Seven shaped-note system.

Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trade and a member of the Church of the Brethren.  He became a "singing master" and was the first person to produce a successful song book in the seven-shape note system, entitled The Christian Minstrel. The book went through as many as 171 editions (Jackson, White Spirituals, p. 320).  "He vigorously defended his 'invention' and his patent, which included the elimination of bass and treble clefs and the simplification of time signatures. After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations." - wikipedia.

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Aikin, J. B.  The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America.  Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies.  Philadelphia: S. C. Collins, (1846 - probably a later printing).  One Hundred and Fifty-Second Edition. [TS40]

Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, firmly attached.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), several names, other writing in pencil on end papers and some pages, lacks all free end papers.  416 pp., complete text, last index leaf tattered and detached.

Seven shaped-note system.

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Aikin, J. B.  The Juvenile Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a Choice Selection of Moral and Sacred Songs; Designed for the Juvenile Singing Schools, Public Schools, Juvenile Concerts, Select Classes, and Family Circles.  Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, Jr. 1851. Fifth Edition. [TS06]

Leather spine with green printed paper over card, oblong 12 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), small bookseller's ticket on front paste-down, contemporary signature in brown ink on the tp, "Hannah M. Shoemaker, Deerfield."  208 pp., text complete.

Seven shaped-note system.

Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trade and a member of the Church of the Brethren.  He became a "singing master" and was the first person to produce a successful song book in the seven-shape note system, entitled The Christian Minstrel. The book went through as many as 171 editions (Jackson, White Spirituals, p. 320).  "He vigorously defended his 'invention' and his patent, which included the elimination of bass and treble clefs and the simplification of time signatures. After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations." - wikipedia.

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Allebach, J. C.; Hunsberger, I. R. The Temple Harp: being a very Choice Collection of Sacred Music, comprising the Most Popular Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, &c. Ever Issued from the Press; in J. B. Aikin's Seven Figured or Character Notes; Including a New and Thorough Course of Instruction in the Elementary Principles of Musical Science. Designed for the use of Choirs, Singing Schools and Singing Societies. Philadelphia: S. C. Collins, (1872). [8849]

Leather spine, printed paper boards, front joint cracked and weak, rear good, covers scuffed. Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 1/2 inches), title page is detached. Shaken, many pencil X marks, 384 pp., some page edges creased, last leaf with tear at tom affecting 3 lines of the Index. Contents complete. Fair. Hardcover.

A seven-shape shape-note tunebook.

Jacob C. Allebach (1851-1909), of Hatfield Township, Pennsylvania, "had an unusual occupation for a Mennonite. He had a long career as a music teacher, and published three books of music - a keyboard book titled Preceptor for the Organ and Melodeon in 1870, and two harmony singing books, The Temple Harp and Readable Notes for the Sunday School in 1872. Readable Notes and The Temple Harp were compiled in partnership with Isaac R. Hunsberger, a Brethren organ builder of Hatfield. For musical notation, Allebach and Hunsberger used J. B. Aikins's 'seven figured or character notes' (shape notes). Jesse Bowman Aikin, a native of Chester County, was Hunsberger's father-in-law and is buried in the Hatfield Brethren Cemetery...J. C. Allebach was a lifelong member of Plains Mennonite Church." - Forrest Moyer, Our Immigrant Heritage: Allebach, Mennonite Heritage Center online. 

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Auld, Alexander. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Minstrel of Sacred Music; containg a Choice Selection of Tunes, Anthems, Etc., from the best American and Foreign Authors of Church Music; Also, a few Appropriate Moral Songs, for the Use of Temperance Societies, Schools, Academies, Orchestras, Etc. Deersville, O.: Published by the Author, 1863. [8701]

Leather spine, frayed at top, front joint partly cracked, rear fine. Printed paper boards, now dark with some stains. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), one section of five leaves sewn in upside down. 344 (2) pp., counted and complete. Small tintype photograph laid in of a young woman in period dress. Rear fly page with the alphabet & numbers pressed into a circle in black ink, likely by hand. Appears to have had some sewing repair in the past, now gone. Good. Hardcover.

A seven-note shaped-note tunebook.

Alexander Auld (1816-1898), b. Milton, PA; d. Deersville, Oh. Auld was a farmer, singing-school teacher, hymnwriter and tunebook composer. He wrote the song The Hills of Ohio, and compiled and published The Ohio Harmonist in 1847 (with Joshua Martin), and The Key of the West (1856). The Farmers' and Mechanics' Minstrel contains the majority of The Key of the West, which was full of printing errors, and not reprinted. In addition, it contains 16 new compositions by Auld and 92 new compositions by Seth Ely. - composers-classical-music online.

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Auld, Alexander. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Minstrel of Sacred Music; containing a Choice Selection of Tunes, Anthems, Etc., from the best American and Foreign Authors of Church Music; Also, a few Appropriate Moral Songs, for the Use of Temperance Societies, Schools, Academies, Orchestras, Etc. Deersville, O.: Published by the Author, 1866. [8846]

Leather spine, peach printed paper boards, scuffed with some stains. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), 344 (2) pp., counted and complete. Lacks the front free end papers and the title page is wobbly, ink stain on the first Preface page, a few pp. with margin tears, in general the text is very good. Good. Hardcover.

A seven-note shaped-note tunebook.

Alexander Auld (1816-1898), b. Milton, PA; d. Deersville, Oh. Auld was a farmer, singing-school teacher, hymnwriter and tunebook composer. He wrote the song The Hills of Ohio, and compiled and published The Ohio Harmonist in 1847 (with Joshua Martin), and The Key of the West (1856). The Farmers' and Mechanics' Minstrel contains the majority of The Key of the West, which was full of printing errors. In addition, it contains 16 new compositions by Auld and 92 new compositions by Seth Ely. - composers-classical-music online.

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Auld, Alexander. The Ohio Harmonist; A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, from the best Authors: to which is added A Supplement of Temperance Songs; for the use of Congregations, Singing Schools, Temperance Meetings, and Musical Associations; consisting of Three Parts: Parts I. and III. containing the Seven Syllables, in Patent Notes. Part II. contains the Four Syllables, in Patent Notes. Also, containing The Rudiments of Music, on a Plain and Concise Plan. Washington, Ohio: A. Auld and Joshua Martin, 1846. First Edition. [8834]

Leather spine probably with paper-covered boards, long ago covered in gold & blue floral-pattern cloth. Cloth largely gone from spine, spine chipped with loss, front board is detached. Oblong 11.75 cm (4 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches), 160 pp., text complete, some light foxing & small stains. Good. Hardcover.

A seven-note shaped-note tunebook.

Alexander Auld (1816-1898), b. Milton, PA; d. Deersville, Oh. Auld was a farmer, singing-school teacher, hymnwriter and tunebook composer. He wrote the song The Hills of Ohio, and compiled and published The Ohio Harmonist in 1847 (with Joshua Martin), and The Key of the West (1856).

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Biddle, J. H.  The Harp of the Valley: A Collection of Choice Tunes, Selected and Original; Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Social Circles.  Written in the Numerical System of Notation.  Philadelphia: Miller and Burlock. 1854. Third Edition, greatly Improved and Enlarged. [TS04]

Leather spine with gilt lines, printed peach paper over card, small bit of worming to front joint, oblong 11.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches).  xviii., (1)-126; complete, text clean and very good.

Although not shaped note, this tune book is in a system of numerical notation, and is perhaps more unusual/scarce than others.

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Carden, Allen D. The Missouri Harmony; or a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, and Anthems, from eminent Authors: With an Introduction to the Grounds and Rudiments of Music... Cincinnati: unknown, unknown. [8830]

This rare tunebook lacks the title page. Due to the number of pages we know it was published sometime between 1820 and 1834.

Full worn leather, oblong 13 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches, begins at Preface p. iii.-(xx.), (21)-26, 31-34, 37-199 (1); the last leaf is badly tattered with loss. Defective: lacking the title page and 3 leaves (6 pp.) Poor. Hardcover.

Unable to match the Stanislaw number, but earlier than the 1835 supplement edition, which places it between 1820 and 1834. A four-shape shape-note tunebook.

Allen Dickenson Carden (1792-1859) b. Tennessee; d. Franklin, Tennessee. "Singing-school teacher and tunebook compiler. Nothing is known of his early activities or training, but in 1817 he was active as a teacher in Tennesee, Kentucky, and Virginia, and in 1823 he taught the first singing-schools in Nashville. His first tunebook, Missouri Harmony (published in St. Louis, printed in Cincinnati, 1820, rev. 1850/R1975), was the most popular tunebook of the South and West until the Civil War, and went through 22 editions by 1857. Carden procured music type and published his other tunebooks himself; The Western Harmony (Nashville, 1824) and United States Harmony (Nashville, 1829) [but they] did not achieve the success of Missouri Harmony, however. Carden remained in and around Nashville from 1830 to 1850, when he moved to Williamson County (probably Franklin, Tennessee)." - David L. Crouse, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

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Carden, Allen D.  The Missouri Harmony; or a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, and Anthems, from eminent Authors: With an Introduction to the Grounds and Rudiments of Music...To which is added, A Supplement, containing a number of admired Tunes of the various Metres, and several choice Pieces, selected from some of the most approved Collections of Sacred Music. By an Amateur.  Cincinnati: Printed and Published by Phillips and Reynolds.  Latest Improved Edition.  1844. [TS26]

Leather spine with printed paper over card, front detached with partial vertical crease, some paper missing from back cover, oblong 13.25 cm (5 1/4 x 9 inches).  Dark strips on binding from long-gone tape, several signatures on front paste-down, pencil markings on tp.  (1)-200, (1)-40.  Text complete.  Lacks the front free end papers.

Stansilaw 24, "17th edition". 200 pp. of the Harmony with a 40 pp. Supplement.

Allen Dickenson Carden (1792-1859) b. Tennessee; d. Franklin, Tennesee.  "Singing-school teacher and tunebook compiler.  Nothing is known of his early activities or training, but in 1817 he was active as a teacher in Tennesee, Kentucky, and Virginia, and in 1823 he taught the first singing-schools in Nashville.  His first tunebook, Missouri Harmony (published in St. Louis, printed in Cincinnati, 1820, rev. 1850/R1975), was the most popular tunebook of the South and West until the Civil War, and went through 22 editions by 1857.  Carden procured music type and published his other tunebooks himself; The Western Harmony (Nashville, 1824) and United States Harmony (Nashville, 1829) [but they] did not achieve the success of Missouri Harmony, however.  Carden remained in and around Nashville from 1830 to 1850, when he moved to Williamson County (probably Franklin, Tennesee)." - David L. Crouse, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

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Carden, Allen D.  The Missouri Harmony; or a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, and Anthems, from eminent Authors: With an Introduction to the Grounds and Rudiments of Music...To which is added, A Supplement, containing a number of admired Tunes of the various Metres, and several choice Pieces, selected from some of the most approved Collections of Sacred Music. By an Amateur.  Cincinnati: Printed and Published by Phillips and Reynolds.  Latest Improved Edition.  1846. [TS55]

Leather spine with printed paper over card, back joint cracked and both boards wobbly.  Oblong 13.25 cm (5 1/4 x 9 inches), covers scuffed and worn.  (1)-200, (1)-40.  Text complete. 

Stansilaw 25, "18th edition". 200 pp. of the Harmony with a 40 pp. Supplement.

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Carden, A. D.; Rogers, S. J.; Moore, F.; Green, J.  The Western Harmony, or, The Learner's Task Made Easy: containing A Choice Collection of Tunes for Church Service, some them entirely new, Suited to the various Metres in Watts' Hymns & Songs, & The Methodist and Baptist Hymn Books, to which is added A few of the most approved Anthems.  Selected by A. D. Carden, S. J. Rogers, F. Moore, and J. Green.  Nashville: Published and Sold by Allen D. Carden and Samuel J. Rogers, and for sale at the Bookstores...in the Principal Towns in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.  Republican Office - Carey A. Harris, Printer, College Street, Nashville.  1824. [First Edition]. [TS32]

Leather spine, marbled paper over card, joints good, binding rubbed & worn.  Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 inches), dark stains to the first few leaves, dark foxing throughout.  Leaf 113-114 torn at top corner with loss to the ends for four stanzas; rear fly page torn with loss.  (1)-151 (1); text complete.

Stanislaw 32.

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Clayton, David L.; Carrell, James P. The Virginia Harmony, A New and Choice Selection of Psalm & Hymn Tunes, Anthems & Set Pieces, in Three and Four Parts, some of which have never before been published; Prepared for the Use of Singing Societies, Teachers of Sacred Music, and Individual Instruction. To which is Prefixed, An Introduction Explanatory of the System, and A Series of Progressive Lessons. Winchester: Printed by Robinson & Hollis, 1836. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, by D. L. Clayton. [8676]

Leather spine with plain paper over card, vertical crease to center of front, joints good, binding is scuffed and worn. Oblong 12.5 cm (5 x 9 inches). (1)-174, 177-200. Title page is detached and creased; leaf 177-178 is detached; no front end papers. DEFECTIVE: lacking one leaf, pp. 175-176 Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 35. A four-shape note tunebook.

"There are seventeen songs composed by Carrell. These songs are uniformly dignified and decidedly above the average rural southern product in the matter of musical invention or, I might almost say, inspiration. The rest of the tunes conform to what the Preface promises, namely, that 'the compilers...have passed by many of the light airs to be found in several of the recent publications...and have confined themselves to the plain psalmody of the most eminent composers.'"- Jackson, White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, pp, 35-36.

The Virginia Harmony was first published in 1831 at Winchester, Virginia, and contained 191 tunes on 167 pages. This second edition has 33 additional pages of music.

David Little Clayton (1801-1854), b. Monongahela Co., Virginia; d. Frederick Co., Virginia. A Presbyterian, Clayton was a farmer, magistrate, and church elder. - see David Warren Steel, Lazarus J. Jones and the Southern Minstrel (1849), American Music Vol. 6, No. 2. (Summer, 1988).

James P. Carrell (1787-1854), Methodist minister from Lebanon, Virginia. In addition to his ministry with the Methodists, he was a singing teacher, composer and songbook compiler. He is credited with two tunebooks in the four-shape note tradition.

"It is one of the earliest known print sources of the tune for 'Amazing Grace', given in The Virginia Harmony as 'Harmony Grove' and used as a setting for the Isaac Watts hymn 'There Is a Land of Pure Delight'. The 'Amazing Grace' text was not set to this melody until the 1847 Southern Harmony, where the tune was called 'New Britain'." - wikipedia.

"Harmony Grove" is on p. 19 of this tunebook.

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Cole, John. Union Harmony; or, Music Made Easy: A New and Pleasing Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, A Great Part of Which are Entirely New. Baltimore: Published and Sold by William & Joseph Neal, and John Cole. | J. Robinson, printer, (1829). First Edition.  [8839]

Leather spine with plain blue paper boards, lacking all free end papers with the text block pulling away from the backstrip, oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches). (i.)-xvi., (17)-143, (1) pp. Text complete and very good. Good. Hardcover.

Title continues: Adapted to nearly all the variety of metres to be found in Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns, Dr Dwight's, Dr. Rippon's, and Rev. Mr. Dobell's Selections; the Village Hymns; the Methodist Hymn Books, and the new Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The Whole Arranged in Three and Four Parts. To which is prefixed, A New and Complete Introduction to the Practical Knowledge of Music, and a Series of Progressive Lessons, Calculated to lead the Student on by regular steps, until the desirable object of singing at sight is fully attained. Intended for the use of such Teachers as are in the habit of using what are called the Patent Notes; and to remove the prejudices of those who have never fairly examined the System.

Stanislaw 37. A four-note shape-note tunebook.

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Cole, John. Union harmony, or Music made easy : a new and pleasing selection of Psalm and hymn tunes, a great part of which are entirely new ... to which is prefixed a new and complete introduction to the practical knowledge of music, and a series of progressive lessons ... Newcastle, Virginia: The Compilers, 1868. Fourth Edition. [8792]

This lacks the title page. Author, title, and imprint derived from the Prefaces. A very worn and incomplete copy of a rare tunebook.

This has a hand-sewn leather repair over the original spine, retaining the original paper-over-card boards, now quite worn. Oblong 12 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches). 3-140 pp. Lacking title page and leaf pp. 87-88, 9 leaves torn with some loss (pp. 29-30), (113-120) & (133-140). Almost every page tattered with tears in the margins, not affecting much text other than those noted. Poor. Hardcover.

The first edition (1829) is Stanislaw 37. He does not record any later editions. A four-shape shape-note tune book.

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Collins, T. K., Jr. The Timbrel of Zion: A Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, from the most Distinguished European and American Authors; Embracing all the Modern Improvements, and Containing a Clear Exposition of the Primary Principles of Musical Science. Designed for the use of Choirs, Singing-Schools, and Societies; the Whole constituting a Body of Church Music as Complete as ever issued by the Press. Philadelphia: S. C. Collins, 1853. [8696]

Leather spine with printed paper boards, front right bottom corner damaged with loss; ffep, title page, and next leaf also torn with loss at that place, many pages afterwards dogeared in that corner. Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), 352 pp. with 3 missing leaves, a few tattered leaves. Defective: lacking pp. 341-348.

"The Character Notes, as used in the 'Christian Minstrel,' secured for this work by special contract with the Proprietors."

This has a seven-note shaped-note system of music.

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Day, H. W. The One Line Psalmist; Day and Beal's New Musical Notation and Sight-Singing Method, by which Classes, Schools and Choirs, In a few lessons become better Readers of Music than Common Singers do the Old way during life: Also, a large variety of Sacred Music, new and old; By German, English, and American Composers, Comprising Tunes in the usual Metres and Keys; together with Sentences, Anthems, and Chants. Boston: Published at 219 Washington St., and sent per order to Booksellers and Teachers of Music to all parts of the United States, 1849. [8795]

Leather spine with printed paper boards, front board almost detached, oblong16 cm (6 1/4 x 9 inches). 192 pp., text complete and very good. Good. Hardcover.

Has a section of Chants Adapted to Hymns and Selections also to the Service of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Instead of notes round or shaped, this system uses numbers.

Hartley Wood Day (1811-1877), a native of Old Bristol, Maine. A minister, Day graduated from Colombian University in Washington DC (1837) and from Colby College, Waterville, Maine (1841). He invented his own numerical music system and published six tunebooks which used his system. 

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Day, H. W. The One Line Psalmist; Day and Beal's New Musical Notation and Sight-Singing Method, by which Classes, Schools and Choirs, In a few lessons become better Readers of Music than Common Singers do the Old way during life: Also, a large variety of Sacred Music, new and old; By German, English, and American Composers, Comprising Tunes in the usual Metres and Keys; together with Sentences, Anthems, and Chants. Boston: Published at 8 Court-Square, and sent per order to Booksellers and Teachers of Music to all parts of the United States, 1849. [8847]

Leather spine with printed paper boards, bottom corner of back board missing corner piece 3x3 inches, end paper hinges open making the boards wobbly, oblong 16 cm (6 1/4 x 9 inches). First front free end paper torn with loss at bottom corner, rear end papers remnants only.  192 pp., text complete and very good. Music program laid in, see below. Good. Hardcover.

Has a section of Chants Adapted to Hymns and Selections also to the Service of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Instead of notes round or shaped, this system uses numbers.

With a 4 pp. music program laid in. "Anniversary of the Sunday School Union of the Methodist E. Church, held in the Music Hall, Boston...May 26, 1858...Singing by 400 children of various Schools, under the Direction of Prof. E. H. Frost, Boston." With the order of the service, texts of the songs sung by the children. Folded and creased.

Hartley Wood Day (1811-1877), a native of Old Bristol, Maine. A minister, Day graduated from Colombian University in Washington DC (1837) and from Colby College, Waterville, Maine (1841). He invented his own numerical music system and published six tunebooks which used his system.

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Dingley, Charles [editor]. The Devotional Harmonist: A Collection of Sacred Music, comprising a large variety of New and Original Tunes, Sentences, Anthems, etc., In addition ot many of the most Popular Tunes in common use; Presenting a greater number of Metres than any book heretofore published. To which is prefixed, A Progressive System of Elementary Instruction for Schools and Private Tuition. New-York: George Lane and Levi Scott, 1849. Patent Note Edition. [8691]

Leather spine, front joint cracked and weak, rear good. Printed paper over card, scuffed and worn with the back cover having a vertical crease in the center. Oblong 15.5 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), 424 pp., complete. Two leaves with chips in the margins, not affecting any text. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 51 with 424 pp. which he identifies as the 1850 printing; this copy has 1849 on the title page as well as the copyright page.

A four-note shaped-note tunebook.

This book is associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, the publishers (Lane and Scott) and the printer (Joseph Longking) produced many of their music and other books. It contains one of the first printings of "Silent Night" in English set to music. It is hymn 373, attributed to J. F. Warner, who was the translator of Rev. Joseph Mohr's Stille Nact! Heilige Nacht!.

"This is believed to be the oldest translation of "Stille Nacht" in the English language." - Hymns and Carols of Christmas, online.

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Doll, Joseph. Der Leichter Unterricht In der Vocal Musik, Enthaltend, die vornehmsten Kirchen-Melodien, Die be allen Religions-Verfassangen gebräuchlich sind, auf drey Stimmen gesezt; Und mit den vornehmsten Musikalischen Stücken, von versehiedenen Dichtern und Componisten, Sament hinreichendem Unterricht versehen, singesich tet für Singschulen. Harrisburg, [PA]: Johan Wyeth, 1810. First Edition. [8697]

Leather spine with marbled paper over cardm binding edge-worn with some loss of paper on back board. Oblong 14.25 cm (5 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches), front end paper hinge torn making the front board wobbly. Several contemporary inscriptions on the end papers, including "John Francks Book Baught [sic] in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and eleven." Title page leaf torn and lacking about a third from the right top corner. Register leaf (pp xi-xii) lacking half. XII., 108 pp. (120 pp. total). Complete, with the noted defects. Good. Hardcover.

A translation of the imprint has "Harrisburg: Printed by John Wyeth, 1810. And available from the editor and from John Wyeth, bookseller in Harrisburg: from Conrad Doll, Lancaster, and from Jacob Doll, Yorktown."

This is the earliest printed shape-note tunebook in German.

Joseph Doll (1736-1818), b. & d. at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, baptized soon after birth at the First Reformed Church of Lancaster. He was a clock maker and silversmith by trade, setting up his shop in York, Pa.

"The Dolls were a musical family. Jacob Doll was chorister of Christ Church of York for many years. - The Pennsylvania-German, April 1904.

"Departed this life, on Wednesday morning last, Mr. Joseph Doll, clock & watchmaker, of this borough: - A man of unoffending manners and unblemished reputation." - Harrisburg Republican, 3 July 1818.

Joseph Doll (fl. Harrisburg, Pa., ca. 1810-1818), a singing master, brought out the earliest printed shape-note tunebook in German, naming it after Little and Smith's popular The Easy Instructor. When the German Reformed Salem Church of Harrisburg was incorporated on 3 July 1818, Doll was a trustee of the new church." - Britton & Lowens, American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography, no. 169.

Stanislaw 55. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Doll, Joseph. Leichter Unterricht in der Vocal Musik, : enthaltend eine Sammlung geistreicher Gesänge, mit den neuesten und vornehmsten musicalischen Stücken, von verschiedenen Dichtern und Componisten, nebst hinreichendem Unterricht versehen; Eingerichtet für Singschulen. : Zweyter Band. Harrisburg: Johan Wyeth, 1815. First Edition. [8789]

Leather spine with marbled paper over card, small chip to fore-edge of the front board, oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. 120 pp., text complete, a few dog eared corner tips, remarkably nice otherwise. Very good. Hardcover.

Gedruckt bey Johan Wyeth.--1815. Und zu haben bey dem Herausgeber, und bey Johan Wyeth, Buchhändler in Härrisburg: bey Matthias Zahm, Lancaster: bey Henry Doll, Yorktaun, und bey Johan P. Helfenstein, Carlisle.

Copyright Oct. 19, 1815 by Joseph Doll. Includes index of first lines.

Joseph Doll (1736-1818), b. & d. at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, baptized soon after birth at the First Reformed Church of Lancaster. He was a clock-maker and silversmith by trade, setting up his shop in York, Pa. "The Dolls were a musical family. Jacob Doll was chorister of Christ Church of York for many years. - The Pennsylvania-German, April 1904.

"Departed this life, on Wednesday morning last, Mr. Joseph Doll, clock & watchmaker, of this borough: - A man of unoffending manners and unblemished reputation." - Harrisburg Republican, 3 July 1818.

Joseph Doll (fl. Harrisburgh, Pa., ca. 1810-1818), a singing master, brought out the earliest printed shape-note tunebook in German [1810], naming it after Little and Smith's popular The Easy Instructor. When the German Reformed Salem Church of Harrisburg was incorporated on 3 July 1818, Doll was a trustee of the new church." - Britton & Lowens, American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography, no. 169.

Stanislaw 58. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook. The Second Volume of Doll's first German language shape-note tunebook, issued five years after the first.

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Ely, Seth. Sacred Music, containing a great variety of Psalm and Hymn Tunes; selected principally, from the most eminent European Authors; The great part of which were never published in the Patent Notes.  To which is prefixed, a Musical Grammar, a Musical Dictionary, &c.  Cincinnati: - Printed by Morgan, Lodge and Co. for the Proprietors.  1822. [TS18]

Leather spine & corners, "Ely's Sacred Music" in gilt to spine, spine rubbed and worn, marbled paper over card, scuffed and stained. Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), front several leaves with dark stains, including an ink stain in the bottom margin which persists for about half of the book.  End papers filled with contemporary signatures, writing.  (i.)-viii., (9)-320.  Text complete.

Stanislaw 59.

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Ely, Seth. Sacred Music, containing a great variety of Psalm and Hymn Tunes; selected principally, from the most eminent European Authors; The great part of which were never published in the Patent Notes.  To which is prefixed, a Musical Grammar, a Musical Dictionary, &c.  Cincinnati: - Printed by Morgan, Lodge and Co. for the Proprietors.  1822. [TS08]

Leather spine & corners, most of spine worn away, back detached, front joint cracked and loose, marbled paper over card, scuffed and stained. Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), front several leaves with dark stains.  (i.)-viii., (9)-314; DEFECTIVE: lacking pp. 315-320, leaf 65-66 torn bottom corner with some loss of text.

Stanislaw 59.

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Eyer, Henry C. Die Union Choral Harmonie...The Union Choral Harmony (German and English). Philadelphia: Stereotyped by John Fagan | Printed by J. Vancourt, 1839. Tenth Edition, with Additions and Improvements. [8835]

Leather spine with blue printed paper boards, spine worn with some loss of leather and a weak front joint. Oblong 16 cm (6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches), contemporary green paper label on front paste-down, "From J. Ritter & Co.'s Bookstore, Penn below 4 street, Reading, Pa."; "Sarah Ann Klopp, June 19th 1849" on ffep.  xvi., 1-192 pp., text complete. Good. Hardcover.

The complete title in English is, The Union Choral Harmony, consisting of Sacred Music, With German and English lines to each tune, adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination, comprising a number of the most popular Melodies in the United States; to which is added a number of tunes which have never before been published, some of which have been lately composted for this work, by different authors. Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; for the use of Scholars and persons wishing to qualify themselves for participating in Divine Worship. By Henry C. Eyer, of Selinsgrove, Union County, Pa.

Stanislaw 62. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Eyer, Henry C. Die Union Choral Harmonie...The Union Choral Harmony (German and English). Philadelphia: Stereotyped by John Fagan | Printed by J. Vancourt, 1839. Tenth Edition, with Additions and Improvements. [8843]

Leather spine with peach printed paper boards, boards darkly stained & scuffed, both detached, lacks much of the spine leather. Oblong 16 cm (6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches), 1850s & 60s owner's signatures on the ffeps, blue oval bookseller's ticket "York, Pa" inside front. First 2 text leaves attached to detached front board.  xvi., 192 pp., text complete.  Good. Hardcover.

The complete title in English is, The Union Choral Harmony, consisting of Sacred Music, With German and English lines to each tune, adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination, comprising a number of the most popular Melodies in the United States; to which is added a number of tunes which have never before been published, some of which have been lately composted for this work, by different authors. Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; for the use of Scholars and persons wishing to qualify themselves for participating in Divine Worship. By Henry C. Eyer, of Selinsgrove, Union County, Pa.

Stanislaw 62. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Eyer, Henry C. Die Union Choral Harmonie...The Union Choral Harmony (German and English). Philadelphia: Stereotyped by John Fagan | Printed by J. Vancourt, 1839. Tenth Edition, with Additions and Improvements. [8837]

Leather spine with peach printed paper boards, boards darkly stained, front lacking some paper. Oblong 16 cm (6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches), "Reinertown [maybe] May 27 the 1855 | Samuel Keller his Book | Samuel Kellers Book | Skuykille County Union Townsip | May 27th the 1855" on ffep; lacks one front and both rear free end papers.  xvi., 192 pp., text complete. Last leaf with center vertical tear and no loss of text. Light foxing, some finger smudges, ink stain on p. 1 of music, light stains, throughout. Good. Hardcover.

The complete title in English is, The Union Choral Harmony, consisting of Sacred Music, With German and English lines to each tune, adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination, comprising a number of the most popular Melodies in the United States; to which is added a number of tunes which have never before been published, some of which have been lately composted for this work, by different authors. Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; for the use of Scholars and persons wishing to qualify themselves for participating in Divine Worship. By Henry C. Eyer, of Selinsgrove, Union County, Pa.

Stanislaw 62. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Eyer, Henry C. Die Union Choral Harmonie...The Union Choral Harmony (German and English). Philadelphia: John Fagan | Printed by J. Vancourt, 1839. Sixth Edition, with Additions and Improvements. [8698]

Leather spine with yellow printed paper boards, joints good, front edge-worn with some chipping, old leather patch paste vertically just left of center. Oblong 15.25 cm (6 x 10 inches), xvi., 1-192 pp., text complete; lacking the rear free end papers.

The complete title in English is, The Union Choral Harmony, consisting of Sacred Music, With German and English lines to each tune, adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination, comprising a number of the most popular Melodies in the United States; to which is added a number of tunes which have never before been published, some of which have been lately composted for this work, by different authors. Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; for the use of Scholars and persons wishing to qualify themselves for participating in Divine Worship. By Henry C. Eyer, of Selinsgrove, Union County, Pa.

Stanislaw 62. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Eyer, Henry C. Die Union Choral Harmonie...The Union Choral Harmony (German and English). Harrisburg: Francis Wyeth, Printer, 1836. Second Edition, with Additions and Improvements. [8788]

Leather spine marbled paper over card, front with vertical crease, leather spine pulling away from the text block and the book is practically disbound. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches). (I)-XII; 1-178 (of 180).  With the following defects: title page and next leaf torn with 1/3 loss, lacking 5 leaves: pp. 31-34, 73-74, 119-120, 179-180. 2 leaves pp. 89-92 torn with loss at corner, many are detached, a few are edge-tattered. Poor. Hardcover.

The complete title in English is, The Union Choral Harmony, consisting of Sacred Music, With German and English lines to each tune, adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination, comprising a number of the most popular Melodies in the United States; to which is added a number of tunes which have never before been published, some of which have been lately composted for this work, by different authors. Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; for the use of Scholars and persons wishing to qualify themselves for participating in Divine Worship. By Henry C. Eyer, of Selinsgrove, Union County, Pa.

This is not in Stanslaw but falls between Stanislaw 61 and 62. The first edition (61) came out in in the same year as this, but this is a later printing marked Second Edition. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Eyer, Henry C. Die Union Choral Harmonie...The Union Choral Harmony (German and English). Harrisburg: Francis Wyeth, Printer, 1836. Second Edition, with Additions and Improvements. [8791]

Leather spine marbled paper over card, lacks all free end papers. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches). (I)-XII; 1-174 (of 180).  With the following defects: lacking most of 2 leaves (pp. 137-140), and a third of 4 leaves (pp. 159-166), and all of the final 3 leaves (pp. 175-180. Poor. Hardcover.

The complete title in English is, The Union Choral Harmony, consisting of Sacred Music, With German and English lines to each tune, adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination, comprising a number of the most popular Melodies in the United States; to which is added a number of tunes which have never before been published, some of which have been lately composted for this work, by different authors. Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; for the use of Scholars and persons wishing to qualify themselves for participating in Divine Worship. By Henry C. Eyer, of Selinsgrove, Union County, Pa.

This is not in Stanslaw but falls between Stanislaw 61 and 62. The first edition (61) came out in in the same year as this, but this is a later printing marked Second Edition. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Fillmore, A. D. Harp of Zion: A Book of Church Music. Containing also A Concise Course of Instruction for Schools and Private Learners, on Mathematically Constructed Plan of Notation. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co., 1866. [8695]

Leather spine with printed paper boards, 1 inch thin hole near top of spines, joints good, white covers are scuffed and soiled. Oblong 16.5 cm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches), title page is detached and tattered. 334 pp.; defective - lacking the last index leaf. Good. Hardcover.

This unusual tunebook replaces the shaped notes of a seven-note system with numbers. There is a number replacing the shaped-note for each sound. The music is in four parts.

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Fillmore, A. D. Fillmore's Harp of Zion: A Book of Church Music. Containing also A Concise Course of Instruction for Schools and Private Learners, on a Mathematically Constructed Plan of Notation. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co., (1867). [8831]

Printed paper over card, both covers detached with portions of paper missing from the covers. Oblong 16.5 cm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches), title page is detached, stained and tattered; binding shaken and almost split at center, some staining, tattered edges. 334 pp.; text complete. Poor. Hardcover.

This unusual tunebook replaces the shaped notes of a seven-note system with numbers. There is a number replacing the shaped-note for each sound. The music is in four parts.

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Funk, Joseph.  A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, comprising A Variety of Metres, all Harmonized for Three Voices; together with A copious elucidation of The Science of Vocal Music.  Winchester, [VA]: Published at the Office of the Republican, J. W. Hollis, Printer.  1832.  First Edition. [TS23]

Leather spine & corners with plain paper boards, front detached, binding very worn, no end papers.  Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 inches).  (1)-xxvi., (27)-202, (207)-208.

DEFECTIVE: lacking pp. 203-206; some marginal worming, leaf 101-102 with margin chip just touching end of stanza

Stanislaw 67.  "Thorough introduction."  The first edition of this title which began in 1832 with 208 pp.  Funk's first publication was the 88 pp. Die allgemein nützleche Choral-Music...&c., published in German in 1816, at Harrisonburg, VA.

Joseph Funk (1777-1862), b. Pennsylvania; d. Singers Glen, Virginia.  "Composer and tunebook compiler.  A Mennonite, he compiled for the German-speaking denominations of the Shenandoah Valley Die allgemein nützliche Choral-Music (Harrisonburg, Va, 1816), a shape-note tunebook that contained chiefly chorales but also included four folk-hymn tunes taken from Davisson's Kentucky Harmony (1816).  In 1832 he published in Winchester, Virginia, A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, a book of Anglo-American tunes, which had reached ten editions by 1860.  By the fifth edition (1851) the title had become Harmonia Sacra, being a Compilation of Genuine Church Music, and its notation had changed from four- to seven-shape...His grandson Aldine S. Kieffer was a leading publisher of shape-note tunebooks in the Shenandoah Valley after the Civil War." - Harry Eskew, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

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Funk, Joseph; and Sons. Harmonia Sacra, being a compilation of Genuine Church Music.  Comprising a great variety of Metres, All Harmonized for Three Voices.  Together with a copious explication of The Principles of Vocal Music, exemplified and illustrated with Tables in a Plain and Comprehensive Manner.  Eleventh Edition.  Singers' Glen, Rockingham Co., Va.: Published by Joseph Funk's Sons.  H. B. Brenneman, Bremen, Ohio. 1866. [TS39]

Leather spine, cracked at center, printed paper over card, crude sewn repair to front joint, lacks the rear cover & end papers.  Oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 inches).  356 pp., last leaf (index) tattered with loss of words to one corner.  Text pages complete.

Seven-shape note system.

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Gerhart, Isaac; Eyer, Johann F. Choral Harmonie : Enthaltend Kirchen-Melodien, die bey allen Religions-Verfassungen gebräuchlich, auf vier Stimmen gesezt, und mit einigen musikalischen Stücken nebst hinreichenden Unterricht versehen, eingerichtet zur Uebung der Jugend und zum Gebruch [sic] des öffentlichen Gottesdienstes, welches ohne und mit der Orgel kann gebraucht werden, wann ein Organist die Regeln der Musik beobachtet. Harrisburg: John Wyeth, 1822. Second Edition. [8790]

Leather spine with plain paper over card, front joint cracked, boards scuffed with some paper loss, oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches), "Emanuel Stirckler May 13th 1832" in brown ink on the front paste-down. (1)-xii., 1-  Defective: lacking 2 leaves of the introduction (pp. v.-viii.) and 2 leaves of content (pp. 125-128), with one of those leaves badly tattered and laid in. One leaf with a short piece of clear tape, a few with tattered edges. Fair. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 72. A four-shape shape-note tunebook. An expanded reprint of the 1818 first edition (Stanislaw 71,) which had only 103 pp.

Gedruckt und zu haben bey John Wyeth--1822. Und zu haben bey den Autoren--G.W. Mentz, in Philadelphia--John Walter, in Reading--Wilhelm Dickson, in Lancaster., Harrisburg.

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Gerhart, Isaac; Eyer, Johann F. Choral Harmonie : Enthaltend Kirchen-Melodien, die bey allen Religions-Verfassungen gebräuchlich, auf vier Stimmen gesezt, und mit einigen musikalischen Stücken nebst hinreichenden Unterricht versehen, eingerichtet zur Uebung der Jugend und zum Gebruch [sic] des öffentlichen Gottesdienstes, welches ohne und mit der Orgel kann gebraucht werden, wann ein Organist die Regeln der Musik beobachtet. Harrisburg: John Wyeth, 1822. Second Edition. [8842]

Leather spine with paper over card, paper shows faint staff lines in red, joints good, boards quite scuffed. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches), "Sarah Albright, November 5. 1826" in brown ink on the ffep. Diagonal 2 1/2 inch tear top of title page; title page with ornamental border. (1)-xii., 1-28, 31-128 (of 132). Defective: lacking 3 leaves of content (pp. 29-30, 129-132), with several leaves badly tattered and laid in.  Fair. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 72. A four-shape shape-note tunebook. An expanded reprint of the 1818 first edition (Stanislaw 71,) which had only 103 pp.

Gedruckt und zu haben bey John Wyeth--1822. Und zu haben bey den Autoren--G.W. Mentz, in Philadelphia--John Walter, in Reading--Wilhelm Dickson, in Lancaster., Harrisburg.

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The Harmonist: being A Collection of tunes from the most approved Authors; adapted to every variety of metre in the Methodist Hymn-Book.  And, for particular occasions, A Selection of Anthems, Pieces, and Sentences.  New Edition, in Patent Notes - Revised and Greatly Enlarged.  New-York: T. Mason & G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church...James Collord, Printer. 1837. First Edition. [TS29]

Leather spine, printed paper boards, scuffed and worn. Oblong 15 cm ( 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), (iii.)-xiv., 1-384 pp.  DEFECTIVE: lacking title page, (text otherwise complete).

Stanislaw 76.  "Probably by Timothy B. Mason and/or William C. Brown...The Harmonist was a revised continuation of The Methodist Harmonist."

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The Harmonist: being A Collection of tunes from the most approved Authors; adapted to every variety of metre in the Methodist Hymn-Book.  And, for particular occasions, A Selection of Anthems, Pieces, and Sentences.  New Edition, in Patent Notes - Revised and Greatly Enlarged.  New-York: T. Mason & G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church...James Collord, Printer. 1837. First Edition. [TS38]

Leather spine, printed paper boards, scuffed and worn. Oblong 15 cm ( 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), (iii.)-xiv., (2), 1-384 pp., with the following defects: lacking title page, and pp. 179-190, 195-206 [looks like binding error]; last leaf of Index 383-384.

Stanislaw 76.  "Probably by Timothy B. Mason and/or William C. Brown...The Harmonist was a revised continuation of The Methodist Harmonist."

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The Harmonist: being A Collection of tunes from the most approved Authors; adapted to every variety of metre in the Methodist Hymn-Book.  And, for particular occasions, A Selection of Anthems, Pieces, and Sentences.  New Edition, in Patent Notes - Revised and Greatly Enlarged.  New-York: G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, for the Methodist Episcopal Church...James Collord, Printer. 1842. [TS11]

Leather spine, printed paper boards, scuffed and worn yet with good joints.  Oblong 15 cm ( 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), xv., 384 pp., complete, foxing.

Stanislaw 79.  "Probably by Timothy B. Mason and/or William C. Brown...The Harmonist was a revised continuation of The Methodist Harmonist."

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Hayden, A. S. The Sacred Melodeon, containing a variety of the most Approved Church Music, selected chiefly from the Old Standard Authors, With Many Original Compositions. On a New System of Notation designed for the use of Churches, Singing Societies, and Academies. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. [8848]

Title page missing, info taken from the front cover. Black leather spine, printed peach paper boards, old sewn repairs to joints, now boards are detached, scuffed and stained. Oblong 15.5 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), 5-304 pp., several leaves of the Elements of Music with tattered edges; last two index leaves tattered with loss, detached. Defective: lacks 2 leaves, pp. i.-iv. "Elements of Music" and all music pages present. Poor. Hardcover.

Seven-note shape-note tunebook.

Amos Sutton Hayden (1813-1880), b. Youngstown, OH; d. East Cleveland, OH. Hayden was an early Restorationist preacher, college administrator, "and early historian of the Stone-Campbell movement...Hayden grew up on a farm but was able to receive a simple classical education...In 1828, under Walter Scott's influence, Hayden affiliated with the Stone-Campbell Movement, and about 1832 he became one of its evangelists...Hayden was one of the founders of the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College)." He was pastor for many years of the congregation in Collamer, Ohio. He was the compiler of An Introduction to Sacred Music (1834), Sacred Melodeon (1849), The Hymnist, and was the author of The Christian Hymnal and Tunebook (1870) and Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Ohio (1875). Quotations from the entry by Charles R. Gresham in The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement.

"He had a natural gift for music and was one of the earliest compilers of hymns and tunes for use in the churches of the Disciples." - DAB. 

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Hickok, J. H. The Sacred Harp, containing Part First, A clear compendium of the Rules and Principles of Musick. Part Second, A Collection of the most approved Church Tunes, arranged for three or four voices; with a large number of select Hymns, and a few Set Pieces; Designed to furnish Singing-Schools and Societies, and Worshipping Assemblies, of every Denomination; with a complete set of Tunes, adapted to all Metres in common use; Part Third, A Collection of Popular Airs, and Devotional Hymns, designed more immediately for Prayer Meetings and Social Circles, than Schools and Societies. Lewistown, Pa.: Printed by Shugert & Cummings, 1832. First Edition. [8689]

Leather spine with marbled paper over card, scuffed and worn, front joint partly cracked, top of spine chipped with 1 inch loss, corners rounded, 18.5 cm (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). 1834 owner's inscription on ffep; his small ink name stamp bottom of tp.  Leaf 59-60 torn with some loss of text; 2 leaves torn with no loss of text. 141 (3) pp., complete. Shaken, with old stains in the text. Good. Hardcover.

A paragraph at the end of the index says that this compilation was approved by the Synod of Philadelphia, Henry R. Wilson, Stated Clerk.

Stanislaw 92. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

John Hoyt Hickok (1792-1841), b. Wilton, CT; d. Harrisburg, PA. 

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Hickok, J. H.; Fleming, Geo. Evangelical Musick; or, The Sacred Minstrel and Sacred Harp United: consisting of a great variety of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Set Pieces, Anthems, &c., &c., &c. Philadelphia, New York, &c.: J. Whetham, D. Appleton & Co., etc., 1836. [8694]

Leather spine with green printed paper boards, biding with edgewear yet very good for the type. Oblong 13.75 cm (5 1/2 x 9 inches), 312 pp., complete. Very good. Hardcover.

Stereotyped by Redfield & Lindsay, New York; C. Dingley, Musick Typographer.

Stanislaw 99. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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Hood, George.  The Southern Church Melodist: A Collection of Sacred Music, consisting of a great variety of The Most Approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sentences, Chants, etc., selected and original; Intended for the Use of Schools, Choirs, and Social Meetings; Arranged for Four Voices, with a Figured Base for the Organ or Piano Forte.  To which is prefixed, A Full and Complete Inductive Elementary Treatise; with practical Exercises.  Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson.  1846. [TS10]

Leather spine with peach printed paper over card, spine sometime covered in red cloth tape with plastic name label applied.  Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches.  Front fly page detached, tear to title page repaired with pH neutral document repair tape.  192 pp., text complete.

Stanislaw 108.

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Jackson, Samuel. Sacred Harmony: A Collection of Music, adapted to the greatest variety of Metres now in use: And, for Special Occasions, A Choice Collection of Sentences, Anthems, Motets, and Chants; With an Improved System of Elementary Instruction. New-York: George Lane & Charles B. Tippett, 1848. Patent Note Edition. [8836]

Leather spine, printed paper over card, scuffed, worn, front joint cracked, intact. Oblong 15.5 cm (6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches), front end paper hinge sometime repaired with pasted paper, ffep with large pencil inscription, "Joseph B. Shelley's Genuine Music Book, Bought in the year of Our Lord 1857". (i.)-(xl), 1-396 pp.; text complete and very good. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 118. A four-shape shape-note tunebook. Includes some round note selections at the end of the book.

The publisher's names and location - 200 Mulberry St., New York - identify this as a Methodist production.

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Law, Andrew.  The Christian Harmony: or the Second Part of the Art of Singing: Comprising a Select Variety of Psalm and Hymn Tunes: Calculated for Schools and Churches. 

This is Part Two of [The Art of Singing; in three Parts...&c. Printed at Windsor, Vermont, by Nahum Mower.  1805.]  [TS50]

Part Two of the larger work here bound separately, beginning with the Title for Part Two, which is p. (99) of the larger work, continuing to the end of the part.  See Crawford, Andrew Law, American Psalmodist, p. 279.

Leather spine, plain blue paper over wooden boards, some leather & paper missing with the boards weakly attached.  Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 inches).  Contemporary inscriptions in brown ink on end papers and title page, including "Francis W. Swan of Bloomfield, Norridgewock, Maine."  Pages run (99)-154, 155-156 badly tattered with loss and tipped in at front.  DEFECTIVE: lacking 2 leaves at end, pp. 157-160.  Top inside margin of tp torn with loss, one partly-repaired tear to one leaf, page edges a bit tattered in places.

Part of Stanislaw 128.

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Law, Andrew. Select Harmony: containing The Rules of Singing; and Easy Lessons for Learners; Together with a Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes.  Printed upon the Author's New Plan with Lines and Spaces.  Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Robert and William Carr, No. 51, Sansom Street. [Third Edition, 1812]. [TS49]

Original publisher's plain blue wrappers over thin card, lacking spine, front detached, back almost detached.  Oblong 13 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 64 pp.  DEFECTIVE: lacking 2 leaves, pp. 59-62.

Stanislaw 131.  "Re-edition of earlier book with same title; uses Law's shape-note system with lines between notes.  OCLC with 6 locations.

Crawford, Andrew Law, American Psalmodist, pp. 298-299.

"The new Select harmony ... had only its title in common with the original work, which Law had last issued some three decades earlier. Law published his new collection ... in late March or early April of 1812." - ibid, p. 215.

Andrew Law (1749-1821), b. Milford, Ct; one of the first Americans to write about music and the pioneer of a shape-note system of musical notation. "Andrew Law was the most ambitious American psalmodist of the eighteenth century.  He traveled the length of America, establishing singing schools in eleven states; he devised an original musical notation; he was the first American musician to become actively interested in copyright legislation; and, though not primarily a composer, he was his generation's most prolific compiler of tunebooks, publishing, in all, more than thirty separate items." - ibid., preface pp. xv.-xvi.

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Lewis, Freeman.  The Beauties of Harmony; containing The Rudiments of Music on an improved Plan, A Musical Dictionary, or Glossary of Musical Terms, with their Explanations, and An Extensive Collection of Sacred Music, consisting of Short Tunes, Fuges and Anthems.  Revised, Enlarged, and Much Improved.  Pittsburgh: Printed and Published by Johnston and Stockton, Market Street. 1835. [TS17]

Leather spine, printed paper boards, covers detached, scuffed, worn.  13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 inches), (1)-26, 31-198, 201-202; has two plates.  DEFECTIVE: lacking 27-30, 199-200, 203-208.

Stanislaw 139. 

Freeman Lewis (1780-1859), b. Basking Ridge, NJ; d. in Knox Co., Ohio.  Lewis spent most of his adult life in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and was a surveyor by trade.  He was an amateur musician and a member of the Uniontown Presbyterian Church.  "He compiled a book of sacred music, entitled 'Beauties of Harmony,' including his own compositions. His hymn 'Redeemer of Israel' remains popular today." David Hardin, entry at Find A Grave online.

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Little, William; Smith, William.  The Easy Instructor; or, A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony.  Containing I. The Rudiments of Music on an improved Plan, wherein the Naming and Timing of the Notes are familiarized to the weakest Capacity.  II. A choice Collection of Psalm Tunes and Anthems, from the most celebrated Authors, with a number composed in Europe and America, entirely new; suited to all the Metres sung in the different Churches in the United States.  Published for the Use of Singing Societies in general, but more particularly for those who have not had the advantage of Instruction.  Printed, Typographically at Albany, By Websters & Skinners and Daniel Steele, (Proprietors of the Copy-Right).  O. R. Van Benthuysen, Typographer. [1812] [TS21]

Leather spine, crude hand-sewn repairs, inside of front board with linen reinforcement, 1/2 of top oak board present, rest with card repair, back board entirely replaced with card.  Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 inches), manuscript section at front measures 11 cm (4 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches).  Begins with 14 inserted smaller leaves, with 25 pp. filled with manuscript shaped-note music.  Later pencil notation on first leaf, "John D. Coe's Book, 1810 - Published in 1798."  These tunes are added by name to the index of this copy of The Easy Instructor.  The hand-made shaped note manuscript at front is thus a supplement of additional tunes to be used with this tunebook.

The Easy Instructor :  (1)-110; DEFECT: missing last leaf, pp. 111-112.

Stanislaw refers the reader to Lowens.  Lowens Edition J.

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Little, William; Smith, William.  The Easy Instructor; or, A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony.  Containing I. The Rudiments of Music on an improved Plan, wherein the Naming and Timing of the Notes are familiarized to the weakest Capacity.  II. A choice Collection of Psalm Tunes and Anthems, from the most celebrated Authors, with a number composed in Europe and America, entirely new; suited to all the Metres sung in the different Churches in the United States.  Published for the Use of Singing Societies in general, but more particularly for those who have not had the advantage of Instruction.  Printed, Typographically at Albany, By Websters & Skinners and Daniel Steele, (Proprietors of the Copy-Right).  Packard & Van Benthuysen, Typographers. [1815] [TS31]

Leather spine, plain blue paper over wooden boards, some loss of paper at edges; bottom of spine pulled with chip loose on back board, bottom edge of back board chipped with loss.  Oblong 13 cm (5 1/4 x 9 inches).  Contemporary names, scribbles on front end papers. (1)-112 pp.  Text complete.

Stanislaw 160.  Lowens edition Mc.

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Little, William; Smith, William.  Revised and Enlarged Edition.  The Easy Instructor; A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony.  Containing I. The Rudiments of Music on an improved Plan, wherein the Naming and Timing of the Notes are familiarized to the weakest Capacity.  II. A choice Collection of Psalm Tunes and Anthems, from the most celebrated Authors, with a number composed in Europe and America, entirely new; suited to all the Metres sung in the different Churches in the United States.  The Music Types of this Book, as to casting and using, are secured by Patent Right to George Webster, of the city of Albany.  Rights to make or use them may be obtained of him.  Albany: Printed for Westers & Skinners and Daniel Steele.  Packard and Van Benthuysen, Printers. [1817] [TS20]

Leather spine, plain blue paper over wooden boards, contemporary (once) purple paper over the boards - this wrapper is now in two pieces.  13 cm (5 1/8 x 9 inches), lacking front free end papers.  127 [1] pp., text complete.

Stanislaw 165; Lowens edition Q.

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Little, William; Smith, William.  The Easy Instructor; or, A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony.  Containing I. The Rudiments of Music on an improved Plan, wherein the Naming and Timing of the Notes are familiarized to the weakest Capacity.  II. A choice Collection of Psalm Tunes and Anthems, from the most celebrated Authors, with a number composed in Europe and America, entirely new; suited to all the Metres sung in the different Churches in the United States.  Published for the Use of Singing Societies in general, but more particularly for those who have not had the advantage of Instruction.  The Music Types used in printing this Book are secured to the Proprietors by Patent Right.  Utica: Printed by William Wiliams, No. 60, Genesee Street.  1818. [TS30]

Full leather, joints fine, internal crude sewn repairs with binding pulling away from the text block.  Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), no free end papers.  (1)-120 pp.  DEFECTIVE: lack leaves for pp. 121-126 (1).

Stanislaw 167.  Lowens edition S.

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M'Cauley, E. D. The Harmonia Unio: being a collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, &c., &c. with An Appendix of the most Approved Standard German Church Tunes, designed for Singing-Schools, Choirs, Congregations, &c. Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead, 1858. [8841]

Leather spine with printed peach paper boards, some loss of leather yet with good joints, covers scuffed and worn with some loss of paper, oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 1/2 inches). (1)-114, 119-120 pp. Defective: lacking 2 leaves (pp. 115-118) and the rear free end papers. Many leaves with tattered margins. Fair. Hardcover.

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Mason, Lowell; Mason, Timothy B. The Sacred Harp or Eclectic Harmony: A Collection of Church Music, consisting of a great variety of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sacred Songs and Chants, original and selected; Including many new and beautiful subjects from the most eminent Composers, Harmonized and Arranged expressly for this Work. Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1835. New Edition, Revised and Corrected.[8690]

Leather spine with printed blue paper over card, joints good, paper scuffed and worn with loss. Oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches), old ink inscriptions on the end papers, "Withers, Raleigh, N. Carolina," "Edmund Withers, Washington College, Hartford, Connecticut." First free end paper missing. Leaf 97-98 torn with loss of half, index leaf torn with little remaining. 230 pp. (2) pp., all pages present with the noted defects of two leaves.  Fair. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 184. A four-note shape-note tunebook.

"The publishers would further remark, that the 'Sacred Harp' is printed in patent notes (contrary to the wishes of the Authors) under the belief that it will prove much more acceptable to a majority of singers in the West and South." - p. iv.

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Mason, Lowell; Mason, Timothy B. The Sacred Harp: or Eclectic Harmony: A Collection of Church Music, consisting of a great variety of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sacred Songs and Chants, original and selected; Including many new and beautiful subjects from the most eminent Composers, Harmonized and Arranged expressly for this Work. Cincinnati: William T. Truman, 1845. Enlarged, Revised, and Improved Edition. [8793]

Leather spine with printed cream paper over card, old fabric covering sewn over the binding, now split at the spine. We are leaving it in place and you can decide whether or not to remove it. The boards are worn and limp, the text block is pulling away from the spine, there is a 2 inch split at the bottom of the front joint. Oblong 14.25 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches). Lacks the front free end papers and probably a page of recommendations at front (the title page is [3]). [3]-238, (2) pp. The last leaf (2) is the index. The only thing lacking is the probably recommendation page at front. Instruction and music texts are complete. Good. Hardcover.

"Revised, Improved, Enlarged, and Price Reduced!" at top of tp.

Most similar to Stanislaw 189. A four-note shape-note tunebook. "The publishers would further remark, that the 'Sacred Harp' is printed in patent notes (contrary to the wishes of the Authors) under the belief that it will prove much more acceptable to a majority of singers in the West and South." - p. iv.

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Musselmann, S. M. Die neue Choral Harmonie, enthaltend die vornehmsten Kirchen Melodien, eingerichtet zum Gebrauche aller christlichen Religionen von jeden Benennunen, und auf drei Stimmen gesetzt; Absonderlich eingerichtet zum öffentlichen Gottesdienste, als: Kirchen, Versammlungen und Singschulen. Harrisburg, Pa.: Hickok und Cantine, 1844. First Edition. [8833]

Leather spine, original blue paper over boards now covered with white red-striped paper, some of which is missing from the front. Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/5 x 9 inches), old paste stains on the end papers from the applied paper covering. Title page with decorative border; 160 pp., text complete, some sections with dark foxing.  Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 204. A four-shape shape-note tunebook. Texts in German and English.

Samuel Musselmann (1818-1899), b. in a Pennsylvania Mennonite family, a gravestone carver by trade; later in life he moved to Carroll Co., Illinois, where he was ordained a minister and elder in the Church of the Brethren. "This Samuel is best known locally as the compiler of a tunebook, Die Neue Choral Harmonie, a harmony singing book published from Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County [PA] in 1844. The book contains tunes compose or arranged by Musselman with local names - "Franconia", "Hilltown", "Milgord", "Springfield", and "Alpper [Upper] Saucon". - Forrest Moyer, Our Immigrant Heritage: Musselman, Mennonite Heritage Center online.

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Rhinehart, W. R. The American Church Harp: containing A Choice Selection of Hymns and Tunes, comprising A Variety of Metres, well adapted to all Christian Churches, Singing Schools, and Private Families. Dayton, O.: Printed for the Author, at the Printing Establishment of the United Brethren in Christ, 1856. [8679]

Brown leather spine with title & lines in gilt, marbled boards, 18 cm (7 x 4 1/2 inches). 158 pp., complete, foxing. Very good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 228. First published in 1848, this is the third printing. A four-shape note tunebook.

William R. Rhinehart (1800-1861), b. Virginia; d. Dayton, Ohio. Rev. Rhinehart was a minister with the United Brethren in Christ, ordained 1829. He was pastor of a church in Dayton, Ohio, editor of The Religious Telescope periodical, active in both the temperance and anti-slavery movements, and compiled two hymnals, The American Church Harp and the Hymn Book of the United Brethren in Christ.

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Rothbaust, Johannes. Die Franklin harmonie, und leichter Unterricht in der Vokal-Musik. Enthaltend, die vornehmsten Deutch und Englischen Kirchen-Melodien; die bey allen Religions-Verfassungen gebräuchlich, auf drey und vier Stimmen gesetzt: und mit den neuesten und vornehmsten musikalischen Stücken, von verschiedenen Dichtern und Componisten, sammt hinreichendem Unterricht versehen, eingerichtet für Singschulen. Harrisburg, [PA]: John Wyeth, 1821. First Edition. [8838]

Leather spine, plain paper over card, oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches), title page with ornamental border, xii., 144 pp., text complete and very good. Very good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 230. A four-shape shape-note tunebook. Text is in German and English.

Johannes Rothbaust (1762-1841) "the first person to use the newly invented American system of shaped notes...with the German language...His earliest singing-school book, Geistliche Ton-Kunst (Hanover, PA, 1807) had the words printed, but the notes entered by pen, as there were not yet any fonts available for printing music with shape notes. His second [book] was called Die Franklin Harmonie (Harrisburg: John Wyeth, 1821). Franklin was, of course, his county of residence. A third edition was titled The Franklin Harmony (in English). A Lutheran layman, John Rothbaust was the first of three influential shape note tunebook compilers to have his work printed in Chambersburg, by Henry Ruby, in 1830-31." - entry by Dick Hulan at FindaGrave online.

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Rothbaust, John. The Franklin Harmony and Easy Instructor in Vocal Music. Second and Improved Edition of English and German Church Tunes. Selected from the most Eminent and Approved Authors in that Science, for the use of Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools and Private Societies; Together with A Copious and Plain Introduction to the Grounds of Music, and Rules for Learners. Chambersburg, Pa.: Printed by Henry Ruby, (1830). Second Edition. [8693]

The oblong tunebook is covered with a handmade leather wrapper, possibly buckskin, sewn over the original binding. We have left it as is. There are fraktur designs in black in, half moons and a heart, with "Daniel Siffe, 1835." 14.25 cm (5 1/2 x 10 inches), ffep detached, title page almost detached. XII., 195 pp., text complete, foxing. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 231. The first edition was issued in 1821 by John Wyeth of Harrisburg. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

The music is in three parts, in general with one stanza of English and two of German. The Introduction and Rules are in German.

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Smith, Henry.  The Church Harmony: containing a selection of approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, with additions and improvements, adapted to the Divine Worship of the various Religious Denominations, and a concise Introduction to Music; including also a second part or supplement, Containing a variety of Tunes suitable for Singing Schools and Private Societies.  Chambersburg, Pa.  [1834 - Supplement Date] Printed for the Proprietor by Henry Ruby.  Fourth Edition Improved and Enlarged. [TS01]

Leather spine, blue paper boards scuffed and worn, now illegible, some loss of paper, page edges stained yellow.  Oblong 10.5 cm (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), lacking the front free end papers with the paste-down separated from the board.  Contemporary signature & name stamp on the tp, "Jacob E. Bell".  I.-XVI., 1-152; (1)-79; [1]. Leaf vii.-viii. of front Index torn with loss; leaf 31-32 of second part with small hole.  Text otherwise in good condition, complete, foxing.

Stanislaw 234.

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Smith, Henry.  The Church Harmony: containing a selection of approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Set Pieces, and Anthems, from the most approved authors, Adapted to the Divine Worship of the various Religious Denominations; and a Concise Introduction to Music, with additions and improvements.  Chambersburg, Pa.  1841. Published by the Proprietor.  Stereotyped by L. Johnson, Philadelphia.  Nineteenth Edition. [TS03]

Leather spine, orange paper boards scuffed and stained, rear board printed in German.  Oblong 10.5 cm (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), lacking the front free end paper, (1)-304 (all English); (1)-64, supplement (English & German).

Stanislaw 236.

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Smith, Henry.  The Church Harmony: containing a selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Set Pieces, and Anthems, from the most approved authors,  adapted to the Divine Worship of the various Religious Denominations; and a concise Introduction to Music.  With Additions and Improvements; including a Supplement, or Selection of Sacred Music, adapted to the service of the Sanctuary, in the German Language; also, a series of practical Lessons on Time, Notation, &c. on a new and improved arrangement. Chambersburg, Pa.  1847. Published by the Proprietor.  Twenty-seventh Edition. [TS02]

Cloth spine, small portion of spine missing (3 x 1.5 cm), orange paper printed boards, scuffed and soiled.  Oblong 11 cm (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), text complete with (1)-355; 14 pp. of German Supplement; lacks the rear free end papers.  Text generally good with some creased corners, finger smudges, foxing.

Stanislaw 237.

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Steffy, J. W. The Valley Harmonist, containing a Collection of Tunes & Hymns, from Approved Authors - Adapted to the Worship of Religious Denominations. Winchester: Printed by Robinson & Hollis, 1836. First Edition.[8678]

Leather spine with printed paper over card, joints good, binding edges scuffed and worn, tight. Small oblong, 10.25 cm (4 x 6 1/2 inches). 167 (1); 72 (1) pp.; text is collated and complete. Very good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 243. "Simplicity was an editorial goal."

A four-note shape tunebook.

"1836" on the title page; "1839" on the front cover. Stanislaw lists 1836 & 1845 editions, with Robinson & Hollis as the printers of the first edition, and Henry T. Wartman of Harrisonburg as the printer of the second. This is a later issue of the first edition with all of the contents of the first edition (167 pp.) plus errata as p. (168); then Appendix to the Valley Harmonist, 72 pp. plus (1) Index to the Appendix. This makes a total of 241 pages. The second edition of 1845 has 336 pp. This a first edition with the sheets of 1836, with an appendix added in 1839. There is no mention of an appendix on the title page, which is dated 1836. Chute, in the obituary for Steffy in The Musical Million, mentions this added appendix.

John W. Steffy (1801-1879), b. near Plains Mills, Virginia; d. Dublin, Indiana. Steffy was one of ten children, and brought up in the boot and shoemaker trade. His opportunities for education were limited, but during one three-month stint at the Academy in New Market he was taught to sing using the four-note shape system. He compiled his own Valley Harmonist, some of which contents came from his Lutheran church background. He found that he could not make a living at music, so in 1849 he moved to Wayne County, Indiana, where he took up farming. - Chute, The Musical Million, vol. 12 (May, 1881). 

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Swan, M. L. The New Harp of Columbia: A System of Musical Notation with a Note for each Sound, and a Shape for each Note: containing a variety of most excellent Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Odes and Anthems, Happily Adapted to Church Service, Singing Schools and Societies.  Original and Selected.  Nashville: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South. ca. 1895 with one of the agents being Barbee, who was active in the 1890's.  Date obliterated on front, no title page. [TS22]

Green cloth spine with printed paper boards, old cloth strip repairs to cover fold, now ineffective with covers detached.  Oblong, 14 cm (6 x 9 1/4 inches.  DEFECTIVE: lacking first 6 pp., including title page.  7-224 pp.

Seven-shape note system.

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Unseld, B. C.; Kieffer, Aldine S. [editor]  The Temple Star: for Singing-Schools, Conventions, Choirs, Day-Schools, and Musical Societies.  Containing A Theoretical Statement of the Principles of Vocal Music, by B. C. Unseld, of the Virginia Normal School.  Glees and Songs for the Singing-School, Sabbath-School Music, Hymn Tunes, Anthems and Chants.  Dayton, VA: Published by Ruebush, Kieffer & Co. 1886. [TS15]

Green cloth spine with printed paper boards, lacks most of the backstrip, covers scuffed and worn with rounded corners, oblong 16.5 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches).  Front end papers torn with loss, lacks the rear end papers.  Title page with 3.5 cm tear at top, same for the next several leaves, other edge tears elsewhere.  182 pp., (of 184), lacks the index leaf at back.

Seven-shape note system.

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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, 1841. Eighth Edition, Enlarged and Improved. [8832]

Leather spine with printed paper over card, some loss of leather/paper with the boards creased and limp, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches). (i.-xii. with xii. misnumbered as viii.), (9)-188. Complete text with 2 leaves (pp. 175-178) tattered with loss and detached. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 215 (under Nevius). A four-shape shape-note tunebook.

The date 1840 is on the cover; 1841 is on the title page.  The text is misnumbered in both copies of this edition that we have examined.

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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.

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Wakefield, Samuel; M'Lain, Lazarus B. The Christian's Harp, containing a choice selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Suited to the various Metres now in use among different Religious Denominations in the United States: designed for the use of Public and Family Worship; By Samuel Wakefield, Esq. Corrected, Enlarged and Much Improved by Lazarus B. M'Lain. Pittsburgh: Johnston & Stockton, 1837. Second Stereotyped Edition. [8844]

No binding, text only. Small oblong 10.5 cm (4 1/4 x 7 inches), (i)-xiv., 15-160, 1-64; text complete. Sections starting to loosen, end pages soiled, rest good. Good. Disbound.

Stanislaw 246. A four-shape shape-note tunebook.

Samuel Morton Wakefield (1799-1895), b. Franklin Co., PA; d. West Newton, PA. "He served as a drummer in the War of 1812. He became a Methodist minister in 1820...In addition to being a minister, he was also a tailor, singing teacher, and a state legislator. He published several collections of sacred music..." - entry at FindaGrave online.

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Wakefield, Samuel; M'Lain, Lazarus B. The Christian's Harp, containing a choice selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Suited to the various Metres now in use among different Religious Denominations in the United States: designed for the use of Public and Family Worship; By Samuel Wakefield, Esq. Corrected, Enlarged and Much Improved by Lazarus B. M'Lain. Pittsburgh: Johnston & Stockton, 1837. Second Stereotyped Edition. [8845]

Leather spine with printed paper boards, front detached, rear joint fragile, lacking some of the backstrip. Small oblong 10.5 cm (4 1/4 x 7 inches). Lacks the title page & front free end papers.  (iii.)-xiv., 15-160, 1-64; text complete except for the title page leaf (i.-ii.). Ink stamp of Davenport Museum on preface & rear fly page, ink numbers beneath. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 246. A four-shape shape-note tunebook.

Samuel Morton Wakefield (1799-1895), b. Franklin Co., PA; d. West Newton, PA. "He served as a drummer in the War of 1812. He became a Methodist minister in 1820...In addition to being a minister, he was also a tailor, singing teacher, and a state legislator. He published several collections of sacred music..." - entry at FindaGrave online.

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Wakefield, Samuel.  The Western Harp: containing a Collection of Sacred Music, Original and Selected; and Adapted to the Use of Worshiping Assemblies in General, together with a Concise Introduction to the Art of Singing.  Pittsburgh: Charles H. Kay. 1846.  Third Edition, with Valuable and Large Additions. [TS05]

Leather spine, blue printed paper over card, covers detached.  Oblong, 12 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pencil scribbles on the end papers & title page; old stains on the first few leaves.  224 pp., complete; some creased page corners, pencil markings, foxing.

Stanislaw 249.

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Walker, William.  The Christian Harmony: In the Seven-Syllable Character Note System of Music; Being the most Successful, Natural, and Easy Method of Acquiring Knowledge of this Art; Saving to the Learner an Immense Amount of Time and Labor thus placing the Science of Music within the reach of every Person.  Containing the choicest collection of Hymn and Psalm Tunes, Odes and Anthems, selected from the best Authors in Europe and America: A Large Number of New Tunes, from Eminent Composers, never before Published.  Embracing a great variety of Metres suited to the various Hymn and Psalm Books used by the different Denominations of Christians.  Adapted to The Use of Singing Schools, Choirs, Social and Private Singing Societies: also copious elucidation of the Science of Vocal Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Revised Edition, Greatly Enlarged, with the Addition of Many New Tunes.  Philadelphia: Miller's Bible and Publishing House. (1873 [TS34]

Embossed leather spine, peach printed paper over card, front joint broken with the front board detached, scuffing & stains to covers.  Oblong 15.5 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, (i)-xx, (21)-384 pp.  Text complete.

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Walker, William.  The Christian Harmony: In the Seven-Syllable Character Note System of Music; Being the most Successful, Natural, and Easy Method of Acquiring Knowledge of this Art; Saving to the Learner an Immense Amount of Time and Labor thus placing the Science of Music within the reach of every Person.  Containing the choicest collection of Hymn and Psalm Tunes, Odes and Anthems, selected from the best Authors in Europe and America: A Large Number of New Tunes, from Eminent Composers, never before Published.  Embracing a great variety of Metres suited to the various Hymn and Psalm Books used by the different Denominations of Christians.  Adapted to The Use of Singing Schools, Choirs, Social and Private Singing Societies: also copious elucidation of the Science of Vocal Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Revised Edition, Greatly Enlarged, with the Addition of Many New Tunes.  Philadelphia: Miller's Bible and Publishing House. (1873) [TS43]

Leather spine gone, both boards detached and with vertical crease, the book is warped and misshapen, title page and many other sections detached, shaken.  Oblong 15.5 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, (i)-xx, (21)-384 pp.  Text complete.  Poor condition, brittle paper.

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Walker, William.  The Christian Harmony: In the Seven-Syllable Character Note System of Music; Being the most Successful, Natural, and Easy Method of Acquiring Knowledge of this Art; Saving to the Learner an Immense Amount of Time and Labor thus placing the Science of Music within the reach of every Person.  Containing the choicest collection of Hymn and Psalm Tunes, Odes and Anthems, selected from the best Authors in Europe and America: A Large Number of New Tunes, from Eminent Composers, never before Published.  Embracing a great variety of Metres suited to the various Hymn and Psalm Books used by the different Denominations of Christians.  Adapted to The Use of Singing Schools, Choirs, Social and Private Singing Societies: also copious elucidation of the Science of Vocal Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Original Edition, Greatly Enlarged, with all the Old Tunes.  Philadelphia: The E. W. Miller Company.  1901 [TS24]

Black cloth spine, gold printed paper boards, oblong 16.25 cm (6 1/2 x 10 inches), backstrip with hole in center, front board with vertical crease, both boards scuffed and worn.  Recent pencil & ink notes inside front cover, with bookseller's label, lacks front end papers, both end paper hinges sprung.  (i)-(xix), 20-384 pp.  Text complete.

"'Singin' Billy' Walker, after his four-shape Southern Harmony had been on the market for some thirty years and when it seemed to him that the future belonged to the seven-shapers, is said to have prayed to God that He might reveal to him a form of notes that would be acceptable to singers..."  Walker had asked to use Aikin's system of notes, to which Aiken agreed, but his publisher, Sam C. Collins, would not give his permission.  "Then he went to work and invented shaped notes for himself...we know that Walker's Christian Harmony appeared in 1866...with a brand-new threesome of notes.  'Doe' was an inverted key-stone, 'ray' was a quarter-moon and 'see' was an isosclese triangle with its base vertical.  This was destined to be the last of the shape-note-head variations." - Jackson, White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, pp. 331-332.

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Walker, William.  The Christian Harmony: In the Seven-Syllable Character Note System of Music; Being the most Successful, Natural, and Easy Method of Acquiring Knowledge of this Art; Saving to the Learner an Immense Amount of Time and Labor thus placing the Science of Music within the reach of every Person.  Containing the choicest collection of Hymn and Psalm Tunes, Odes and Anthems, selected from the best Authors in Europe and America: A Large Number of New Tunes, from Eminent Composers, never before Published.  Embracing a great variety of Metres suited to the various Hymn and Psalm Books used by the different Denominations of Christians.  Adapted to The Use of Singing Schools, Choirs, Social and Private Singing Societies: Revised, 1958, by John Deason and O. A. Parris.  Christian Harmony Publishing Company, 1958. [TS35]

Black cloth with cream title to front, some old stains to the binding, oblong 15.25 cm (6 x 9 1/4 inches), page edges stained red.  (iv.), 381 (3) pp.  Text complete.

Seven-shape note system.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. | Spartansburg, S. C.: William Walker.  1843.  Stereotype Edition, Corrected and Improved, With an Appendix. [TS28]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather spine with both joints cracked, boards weakly attached.  Covers sometime recovered with what looks to be waxed paper.  xxxii., (1)-232 pp.  Shaken, with several detached leaves.  Text complete for this edition.

Similar to Stanislaw 252.  Eskew 2nd edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. | Spartansburg, S. C.: William Walker.  [1843].  Stereotype Edition, Corrected and Improved, With an Appendix. [Date known from the points on the Eskew chart.] [TS51]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather spine (partial), front detached.  Blue printed paper over card; title page tattered with loss at bottom.  xxxii., (1)-232 pp.  Stained, crude sewn repair to spine, binding pulling away from text block.  Text complete for this edition.

Similar to Stanislaw 252.  Eskew 2nd edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. | Spartansburg, S. C.: William Walker.  1844.  Stereotype Edition, Corrected and Improved, With an Appendix [TS42]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather spine with crude sewn repairs to the joints, some of backstrip missing, lacks all free end papers.  xxxii., (1)-224, (231)-232 pp.  Shaken, with many detached leaves. DEFECTIVE: Lacking pp. 225-230.

Similar to Stanislaw 252.  Eskew 2nd edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. | Spartansburg, S. C.: William Walker.  1845.  Stereotype Edition, Corrected and Improved, With an Appendix [TS45]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), DEFECTIVE: Binding broken, no title pages, missing many other pages, old mold and other stains. 

One interesting feature, signed "John B. Bowen, July 20th, 1848, Monticello, Mississippi."

Stanislaw 252.  Eskew 2nd edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. | Spartansburg, S. C.: William Walker.  1847.  Stereotype Edition, Corrected and Improved, With an Appendix. [TS54]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather spine with printed paper over card, covers stained, bottom of front board damaged with loss, extending through the introductory material.  xxxii. (1)-216, 249-304 pp.  The skip in page numbers (216 to 249) is as printed.  The last leaf, Index, is torn with loss at the top corner.  Otherwise, the text pages are complete.

Stanislaw 253.  Eskew 4th edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: E. W. Miller.  (1847).  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS52]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather spine with printed paper over card, now very dark, some paper missing, front with center vertical break still holding by the paper, back also creased but not broken, private name label on front.  Title  detached & tattered.  , first & last gatherings pulled and loose, several leaves detached.  xxxi., (xxxii.), (1)-16, 19-216, 249-pp.  The skip in page numbers (216 to 249) is as printed.  DEFECTIVE: lacks leaf 17-18; index leaf is pasted inside the back cover obscuring the verso;  Leaves 145-146, 151-152, 301-302 are detached and badly tattered

Stanislaw 254.  Eskew 3rd edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: E. W. Miller.  1847.  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS16]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather backstrip worn away, printed peach paper over card, rear board detached, front nearly so.  Title page nearly detached, first & last gatherings pulled and loose, several leaves detached.  xxxi., (xxxii.), (1)-216, 249-304 pp.  The skip in page numbers is as printed.  DEFECTIVE: lacks leaf 289-290 & 303-304. 

Stanislaw 254.  Eskew 4th edition (with pagination of 3rd: Eskew lists this publisher only once, as a printing of the 4th edition).

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwiat & Co. | Spartanburg, S. C.: William Walker.  1850.  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS07]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather backstrip worn away, printed peach paper over card, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, covers relatively clean and bright.  xxxii., (1)-216, 249-304 pp.  P. 249 begins the Appendix; the book is complete and the collation is correct, see Eskew.

Signed "H. P. Main, Sept 18, 1900."  This is Hubert Platt Main (1839-1925), of the hymnal publishers Biglow and Main of Chicago.  This book was bought by Haaswurth Books when we purchased an archive of hymnals in Winona Lake, IN, about 20 years ago.  It was sometime acquired by Dr. Smoak for his collection, and now offered once more to our customers.

Stanislaw 253, this edition was first published in 1847.  Eskew 4th edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwiat & Co. | Spartanburg, S. C.: William Walker.  1851.  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS53]

Oblong, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), leather spine, printed peach paper over card, covers worn, scuffed, soiled, lacking some paper at the edges.  No free end papers, stains of varying darkness throughout.   xxxii., (1)-216, 249-304 pp.  Text is complete and the collation is correct, see Eskew.

Stanislaw 255.  Eskew 4th edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: E. W Miller.  (1854).  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS19]

Oblong, 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 inches), red leather spine, "Southern Harmony" and lines in gilt, boards covered in unprinted tan or cream cloth.  Marbled paste-downs, no free end papers front or back. xxxii.,(1)-216, 249-330, 333-334.  DEFECTIVE: lacking 331-332, 335-336; pp. 285-290 torn with loss of the bottom half of the leaves.  The break in page numbers (216 to 249) is as issued.

Stanislaw 256.  Eskew 5th edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: E. W Miller.  (1854).  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS44]

Oblong, 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 inches), brown leather spine, boards detached, paper over boards with about half missing on front, rubbed and scuffed on back.  No free end papers front or back; title page is detached.  xxxii.,(1)-216, 249-334.  DEFECTIVE: lacking the index leaf 335-336; shaken, with several detached sections.  The break in page numbers (216 to 249) is as issued.

Stanislaw 256.  Eskew 5th edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion: containing a choice collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems; selected from the most eminent Authors in the United States: together with Nearly One Hundred New Tunes, which have never before been Published; suited to most of the metres contained in Watts's Hymns and Psalms, Mercer's Cluster, Dossey's Choice, Dover Selection, Methodist Hymn Book, and Baptist Harmony; and well adapted to Christian Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies: also, an Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, the Rudiments of Music, and Plain Rules for Beginners.  Philadelphia: Miller & Burlock.  (1854).  New Edition, Improved and Enlarged. [TS25]

Oblong, 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 inches), leather spine, without the front board, rear scuffed with loss of paper.  xxx., (2), (1)-216, 249-334 [194-208 numbered out of order]. The break in page numbers (216 to 249) is as issued.  DEFECTIVE: lacking leaves 7-8, 251-252, 335-336.  Many edges tattered.

Stanislaw 257.  Eskew 5th edition.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony Songbook: American Guide Series; Reproduced, with an Introduction by The Federal Writer's Project of Kentucky, Works Progress Administration.  Sponsored by The Young Men's Progress Club, Benton, Kentucky.  New York: Hastings House, 1939. [TS46]

Black cloth spine with gold printed paper over card, front reproduces the 1854 edition published by E. W. Miller, back has an illustration of the Old Court House, Benton, Kentucky.  Oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 inches), signed "Dr. & Mrs. Vernon Blythe, from Dr. & Mrs. Stilley" on the ffep. Fine clean condition.

22 pp. of new Introduction on "The Big Singing" with many photographs.  Then a facsimile reproduction of Stanislaw 256.

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Walker, William.  The Southern Harmony Songbook: American Guide Series; Reproduced, with an Introduction by The Federal Writer's Project of Kentucky, Works Progress Administration.  Sponsored by The Young Men's Progress Club, Benton, Kentucky.  New York: Hastings House, 1939. [TS47]

Black cloth spine with gold printed paper over card, front reproduces the 1854 edition published by E. W. Miller, back has an illustration of the Old Court House, Benton, Kentucky.  Oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 inches), signed "Margaret Barrell" on the ffep. Fine clean condition.

22 pp. of new Introduction on "The Big Singing" with many photographs.  Then a facsimile reproduction of Stanislaw 256.

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Weber, Thomas R. Die Pennsylvanische Choral Harmonie...The Pennsylvania Choral Harmony (German and English). [Allentown, Pa]: Printed by the Compiler., ca. 1852. Third Edition; with Additions and Improvements. . [8699]

Black leather binding that is separated in one piece from the text block, Fraktur-style heart cut outline on front that once featured a red leather (or some other material) inlay. Two red leather panels with gilt devices on spine. Oblong 16.75 cm (6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches), lacks all free end papers. Title page weakly attached. (I)-XII, 1-288 pp., text complete. A few tattered leaves, light foxing. Fair.

The full title in English is, The Pennsylvania Choral Harmony, containing the principal Church Melodies; provided with German and English Text; Adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination; comprising a number of the most popular pieces of eminent Composers - composed for three and four voices; Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; designed for the use of Scholars, as well as for Public Worship, Families, Singing-Schools and Musical Societies. By T. R. Weber. Third Edition; with Additions and Improvements. Printed by the Compiler.

Stanislaw as the 2nd edition as 1849 and the 5th edition as 1859. He does not list this third edition.

A four-note shaped-note tunebook.

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Weber, T. R. Die Pennsylvanische Choral Harmonie...The Pennsylvania Choral Harmony (German and English). Hellertown, Pa.: Thos. R. Weber, 1884. Thirteenth Edition. 1859 copyright date; 1884 printing. [8850]

Leather spine with printed paper boards, boards are scuffed and very worn, end paper hinges torn making the covers wobbly. Oblong 17 cm (6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches), lacks a front free end paper, second one is creased and tattered. Title page and next 2 leaves tattered in the bottom margins. XVI, 400, 16, 144, 16, VIII (Index). One leaf with thin paper strips pasted as a repair. Text generally good to very good with some occasional margin tears & stains. Pages counted and complete. Good. Hardcover.

The full title in English is, The Pennsylvania Choral Harmony, containing the principal Church Melodies; provided with German and English Text; Adapted to the use of Christian Churches of every denomination; comprising a number of the most popular pieces of eminent Composers - composed for three and four voices; Together with a concise introduction to the Art of Singing; designed for the use of Scholars, as well as for Public Worship, Families, Singing-Schools and Musical Societies. Compiled by T. R. Weber. Thirteenth edition.

Earlier editions are listed in Stanislaw. The 1859 edition was originally the 5th, with 292 pp. and 340 tunes.

A four-note shaped-note tunebook.

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Weber, T. R. The Juvenile Harmony, containing A Choice Collection of Moral and Sacred Songs, designed for Juvenile Singing Schools, Common Schools, Sunday Schools, Family Circles and Juvenile Concerts. [Allentown, PA]: Printed by the Compiler, 1854. Second Edition. [8794]

Green leather spine with printed paper over card, boards very scuffed and worn with some loss of paper. Oblong 13 cm (5 x 8 1/2 inches). No title page or introductory material, begins with the first page of tunes. (1)-10, 15-26, 31-74, 79-106, [107-111 laid in, tattered with loss], 111-114 (of 120). Very defective with many missing leaves. Poor. Hardcover.

See Stanislaw 260, where he has an unlocated 1852 first edition mentioned by Eskew. The next date he has is his no. 261, 1859. He does not recorded this 1854 edition.

A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

Weber, T. R. The Juvenile Harmony, containing A Choice Collection of Moral and Sacred Songs, designed for Juvenile Singing Schools, Common Schools, Sunday Schools, Family Circles and Juvenile Concerts. [Allentown, PA]: Printed by the Compiler, 1859. Second Edition. [8688]

Leather spine with marbled boards, joints fine, covers are worn and scuffed yet tight and intact. Printed paper title label to front. Oblong 13 cm (5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches), lacks all free end papers. viii., 116 pp. (of 120). DEFECTIVE: lacking the last two leaves. Old stains in the text. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 261. A four-shape shaped-note tunebook.

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White, B. F.; King, E. J.  The Sacred Harp, A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Odes, and Anthems, selected from the most Eminent Authors: Together with nearly One Hundred Pieces Never Before Published; Suited to most Metres, and well Adapted to Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies.  With Plain Rules for Learners.  To which is added an Appendix, containing a variety of Standard and Favourite Tunes not comprised in the Body of the Work, compiled by a committee appointed by "The Southern Musical Convention."  Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, Jr....and T. K. & P. G. Collins, for the Proprietors, White, Massengale & Co., Hamilton, Ga.  (1850). [TS36]

Leather spine, green printed paper over card, front detached with much of the backstrip gone.  Oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 inches), Appendix dated Hamilton, Jan. 12, 1850.  Has description of the Committee appointed by "The Southern Musical Convention."  Page numbers of the Appendix continuous with the main part.  368 pp., some sections shaken, a few leaves detached; text complete.

Possibly a variation of Stanislaw 275; he has 262 pp., appendix 104 pp.  He neglects the index leaf, pp. 367-368.  Either that or this is a variation of S. 275 with continuous pagination.  Also, Stanislaw has "S. C. Collins, Jr.", yet this copy has T. K. Collins, Jr....&c.

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White, B. F.; King, E. J.  Fourth Edition, Much Improved and Greatly Enlarged.  The Sacred Harp, A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Odes, and Anthems, selected from the most Eminent Authors: Together with nearly One Hundred Pieces Never Before Published; Suited to most Metres, and well Adapted to Churches of every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies.  With Plain Rules for Learners.  Fourth Edition, Entirely Remodelled.  One Hundred and Thirty New Select Pieces, Expressly Arranged for this Book.  Compiled by a Committee appointed by "The Southern Musical Convention." Philadelphia: S. C. Collins, 1870. [TS37]

Leather spine, blue printed paper over card, boards very scuffed and both detached, title page also detached with a hole obliterating the "SA" in "SACRED HARP."  Oblong 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 inches). Date of New Appendix (p. 430) is November, 1869. 478 pp., final leaf tattered.  DEFECTIVE: Lacks the last leaf (second part of Index).

Stanislaw 278.

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Wyeth, Francis [publisher]. Pennsylvanische Sammlung von Kirchen-Musick | The Pennsylvania Collection of Church Musick. Containing an ample Assortment of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, &c. Set to both English and German Poetry. Designed for the Use of Families, Singing-Schools and Musical Societies. Harrisburg, PA: F. Wyeth, 1844. [8677]

Leather spine with marbled paper over card, front with vertical center crease/crack, boards scuffed with some loss of paper. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 inches, 160 pp., complete. Some margin tears, chips; no text affected. Good. Hardcover.

Stanislaw 225. A four-note shape tunebook.

Title page in German & English; Elements of Music (pp. 3-12) in English & German; tunes pp. 122-157 mostly in German, with a few English texts; 158-160 is the Index (German & English). Possibly composed by the publisher, but unknown for certain.

Francis Wyeth (1806-1893), was the son of John Wyeth (1779-1858), John being a publisher and tunebook compiler, and the author of Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music. Francis, the son, was a resident of Harrisburg, PA; he graduated in 1827 from Jefferson College at Canonsburg, and learned the art of printing from his father. He set up shop as a bookseller and publisher in Harrisburg in 1831, and conducted the business until he sold it in 1859. During the American Civil War he served as the local Quartermaster near Harrisburg and was in 1862 was appointed one of the Pennsylvania Commissioners to visit and report on conditions of the hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.  He was a trustee of the Harrisburg Academy for 40 years, and its President for 15 years. He was one of the first three elders of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church.

"He was an excellent classical and English scholar and was always respected as an upright Christian gentleman." - obituary, Harrisburg Patriot, July 3, 1893.

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Wyeth, John.  Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music.  Selected from the most Eminent and Approved Authors in that Science, for the use of Christian Churches of Every Denomination, Singing-Schools & Private Societies.  Together with a plain and concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, and Rules for Learners.  Harrisburgh, Penn.: Printed (typographically) at Harrisburgh, Penn. by John Wyeth, Printer and Bookseller, and sold by him, and by the principal Booksellers in the United States.  1810 [First Edition] [TS12]

Full leather with old crude hand-sewn repairs, front detached and in two pieces (once sewn together but now again separated), all very worn.  Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), contemporary notes in several hands on the end papers.  120 pp., text complete.  Lacks the rear free end papers.

Stanislaw 296.  "Widely copied by the German four-shape book compilers." 

Britton, Lowens & Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810, no. 541.  "129 compositions, incl. 5 anthems & 3 set pieces, for 4 voices, some for 3 & a few for 2; full text."

"John Wyeth (b. Cambridge, Mass., 31 March 1770; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 23 Jan 1858) was a publisher, real estate developer, and first postmaster of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  Wyeth left New England as a young man, traveling briefly to Santo Domingo, then to Philadelphia, before settling in Harrisburg (1792).  There he became publisher of a newspaper, The Oracle of Dauphin, that ran until 1827.  Wyeth, a Unitarian, was a leading citizen of Harrisburg before moving to Philadelphia around 1826.  His musical compilations were highly successful: according to one report, 125,000 copies of the many editions of Wyeth's Repository were sold and 25,000 of Wyeth's Repository, Part Second." - ibid.

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Wyeth, John.  Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music.  Selected from the most Eminent and Approved Authors in that Science, for the use of Christian Churches of Every Denomination, Singing-Schools & Private Societies.  Together with a plain and concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, and Rules for Learners.  Harrisburgh, Penn.: Printed (typographically) at Harrisburgh, Penn. by John Wyeth, and sold by him, and by Wm. W. Woodward, Bookseller...1816.  Fourth Edition. [TS48]

Leather spine with old crude hand-sewn repairs, plain paper over card, scuffed and stained.  Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), contemporary signature of Charles Miley & a modern ink name stamp on the end papers, large stain on the ffep; arc of blue ink on the title page; ink stain in the top margin first 20 leaves, affecting some text; leaf 51-52 with long tear in bottom margin, affecting bottom edge of the stanza.  132 pp., text complete.  Lacks the rear free end papers.

An earlier date for Stanislaw 299.  "Widely copied by the German four-shape book compilers." 

Britton, Lowens & Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810, no. 541.  "129 compositions, incl. 5 anthems & 3 set pieces, for 4 voices, some for 3 & a few for 2; full text."

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Wyeth, John.  Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music.  Selected from the most Eminent and Approved Authors in that Science, for the use of Christian Churches of Every Denomination, Singing-Schools & Private Societies.  Together with a plain and concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, and Rules for Learners.  Harrisburgh, Penn.: Printed (typographically) at Harrisburgh, Penn. by John Wyeth, Printer and Bookseller, and sold by him, and by Schaeffer & Maund, Booksellers, in Baltimore, either of whom will give a liberal allowance to wholesale purchasers.  1818 Fifth edition. [TS33]

Leather spine with plain blue paper over card, spine about half gone, boards wobbly.  Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), contemporary notes in several hands on the end papers: "Amos Kinzer's Book Jany. 7th 1820" in brown ink, and another in pencil asking permission to escort Miss Susan Allabaugh home from the next evening of the Singing School.  Ffep & tp torn at top corner, title page with loss of border and edges of several words, verso with copyright also with loss.  Four manuscript slips of shaped note music pinned to two leaves. (1)-128 pp., last several leaves edge-tattered and detached. DEFECTIVE: lacking last 2 leaves (pp. 129-132).

Stanislaw has 1818 as the fourth edition (299) and 1820 as the fifth edition (300).  Our copy has both the printed date - 1818 - and the printed edition - 5th.

 

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