A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Publick Worship. Boston: Manning and Loring, 1813. Second Edition. [11306]
Full brown leather, both boards detached, leather very worn, crazed, in poor condition. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. American bookplate of James Jackson, see below. The text block is tight and in very good condition, with a large font and clean pages. [1]-263, [1], [i-x index]. Fair. Hardcover.
"Psalms, Selected principally from Tate and Brady," at the head of Psalm I.
Words only, no music; index at end.
First published by Manning & Loring in 1799. "Collected by James Freeman, Rector of King's Chapel, Boston, from 1787-1826." - Worldcat.
The bookplate is that of James Jackson, M.D., no. 418 in Allen's American Book-Plates. Jackson (1777-1867), a Massachusetts native, Harvard graduate (1796), studied medicine and trained for some years in the hospitals of London. He held a medical practice in Boston from 1800 to 1866; he was the first physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was professor of clinical medicine in the Harvard Medical School, and for some years professor of theory and practice in the same. He was a frequent contributor to medical journals and wrote several medical textbooks.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
