Totten, John C. [compiler]. Hymns and Spiritual Songs, usually sung at Camp-Meetings, etc. New York: Collins, Keese & Co., 1838. Twenty-fifth Edition. [11276]
Full leather, small chips to spine ends, 4 x 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches, shaken, with nothing detached. Title page with camp meeting scene, 192 pages, complete. Index leaves with horizontal tear, nothing lost. Dark pencil or other black smudge marks on the front paste-down; lacks on front free end paper, the other is torn with some loss. Fair. Hardcover.
141 hymns, words only; with index.
First published in 1809, it was the earliest of its kind to print and include camp-meeting hymns, and it includes "the spiritual pattern of chorus and verse in all its intricacies, [this] was the product of the American frontier." Don Yoder, Pennsylvania Spirituals, (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Folklife Society, 1961) p. 6.
John C. Totten (1778-1837), a New York City printer who printed many Methodist publications.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
