Howland, S. A. [compiler]. The Social Harmony: A Collection of Old Tunes and Hymns for the Fire-Side and Social Circle, and for the Vestry and Sabbath Schools. Worcester: Published by S. A. Howland, 1847. [11008]
Brown leather spine with blue printed paper over card, 6 x 3 3/4 inches, back cover with publisher's adverts, good joints, tight. 120 clean pp., final free end paper (blank) scuffed with small hole.
"Stereotyped by H. W. Day, No. 8 Court Square, Boston" on verso of the tp.
74 hymns with music, the music is in three parts with round notes.
"The design in the compilation of this little work, is to furnish a choice collection of old tunes, together with a few of more modern date, which are familiar to every lover of sacred music, and will tend to promote the devotional singing in the family and social circle; and also for use in the vestry and Sabbath schools...They are inserted as they were originally written, without alteration; being copied from the oldest collections to be found; and the hymns are the same that were originally attached to the tunes." - Preface.
