Scott, Orange. The New and Improved Camp Meeting Hymn Book; being a choice selection of Hymns from the most approved Authors designed to aid in the Public and Private Devotion of Christians. Springfield, (Mass.): G. & C. Merriam, 1834. Stereotype edition. [11062]
Full brown leather, faint "Hymns" in gilt to spine, binding is edge-worn with chipped spine ends, rounded corners, short cracks to the joint corners, 10.5 x 6.5 cm (4 3/16 x 2 1/4 inches). Begins at title page (no front blanks), torn at the bottom corner of the tp, affecting two letters of the printer's name. [1]-102, 107-224 pages; lacks 2 leaves. Small printed paper remnants on the paste-downs, possibly from an old wrapper. Fair. Hardcover.
166 hymns plus index of first lines; words only, no music.
Rev. Orange Scott (1800-1847), b. Brookfield, Vermont; a Methodist Episcopal minister who led the some of the abolitionists of that church in the formation of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion in 1843. He was the co-editor of the True Wesleyan and was chosen presiding elder at the Utica Convention which would organize the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Scott described the new church as "a new anti-slavery, anti-intemperance, anti-every-thing wrong, church organization."
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
