Brady, N.; Tate, N.; Watts, I. A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes of the Churches & Appendix of Hymns by Watts; By N. Brady, D. D., Chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq., Poet-Laureat, To His Majesty. Boston: Printed for, and Sold by A. Barclay, at the Gold Bible in Cornhill, 1771. [9859]
Full leather binding, scuffed & worn, crude sewn repair affixing the backstrip to the spine, joints partly split. 15 x 9 cm (6 x 3 1/2 inches). Front paste-down lacking exposing the wood board, several names and 1787 date on the front end papers. (1)-276; (1)-64, 69-84 P. 230 of the Psalms is misnumbered as 023. Lacking 2 leaves (pp. 65-68) of the Hymns. Last several leaves are tattered with loss, the text has some light staining; the book is shaken. Fair. Full leather.
Title page for second part: Appendix, containing A Number of Hymns, Taken chiefly from Dr. Watts's Scriptural Collection. Boston: Printed and Sold by John Boyles, 1771. This section has 103 hymns.
The work of Nahum Tate (1652-1715), and Nicholas Brady (1659-1726), a metrical version of the Psalter which supplanted the older version of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins. It first appeared in 1696.
Naham Tate was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was renowned as a poet. He became Poet Laureate in 1692, and is supposed to have done the most work on the traslation of the Psalter.
Nicholas Brady was an Anglican divine and poet, born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. His collaboration with Naham Tate to produce the "New Version of the Psalms of David," is his most-remembered work.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.