Waters, Horace. The Sabbath-School Bell : No. 1. A New Collection of Choice Hymns and Tunes, Original and Standard: carefully and simply arranged as Solos, Duetts, Trios, Semi-Choruses and Choreses, and for Organ, Melodeon or Piano. New-York: Horace Waters, (1862). [11491]
Red cloth spine, printed paper over card, small oblong 4 3/4 x 6 inches. Binding is edge-worn with some loss of the cloth backstrip, light soil. Lacks the front blank and begins at the title page. 139, [3] pages, light foxing; rear paste-down scuffed with some loss. Fair. Hardcover.
The copyright is 1859; a publisher's note on the copyright page indicates this printing is from the latter half of 1862.
Horace Walters (1812-1893), New York hymn & sheet music publisher; retailer and manufacturer of pianos, organs and melodeons. He was for many years a deacon at the Trinity Baptist Church on East Fifty-fifth Street. He was known for his "sterling character and devotion to the advancement of the work of the church...Both of us were strong in our convictions when once they had fully matured, and neither of us was accustomed to refrain from making them known, no matter how slight might be their popularity...I have known very few men, indeed, who carried in their own character so many of the sterling excellencies of a real Christian nature as Horace Walters. I regard Brother Water's life as a living commentary upon the precepts and principles of the New Testament. I never knew personally a more active Christian man in my life than Horace Walters." - Dr. Thomas Armitage, speaking at the memorial service, as recorded in The New York Times, May 24, 1893.
