Bradbury, William B. Bradbury's Fresh Laurels For the Sabbath School. A new and extensive collection of Music and Hymns. Prepared expressly for Sabbath Schools, etc. New York: Biglow & Main, 1867. First Edition. [11138]
Black cloth spine, blue printed paper over card, backstrip partly missing with the spine sometime coated with glue. Small oblong, 5 x 6 3/4 inches, 160 clean pp., small tear to the rear free end paper (blank). Fair. Hardcover.
With selections by Fanny Crosby, Sidney Dyer, Kate Cameron, Ellen H. Gates, and others. The music is in four parts with round notes.
William Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868). b. York, Maine; d. Montclair, New Jersey. He was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books of musical collections for choirs and schools, the first published in 1841. His best-known song is probably "Jesus Loves Me," for which he wrote the music and added the chorus, "Yes, Jesus loves me..." Other well-known tunes composed by Bradbury are sung to the hymns "He Leadeth Me," "Just As I Am," "Sweet Hour of Prayer," and "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less."
