Harris, Thaddeus Mason. Hymns for the Lord's Supper, Original and Selected. Boston: Printed by Sewell Phelps, 1821. Second Edition. [9809]
Blue stiff paper wrapper, 14.5 x 9 cm (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches), "E. A. Stine, East Springfield, 1879" in brown ink at top of tp, 54 pp., complete. A few light pencil scribbles; some brown ink strokes. Good. Wraps.
A shorter first edition of this book was published in 1801, for the use of the church at Dorchester.
47 hymns, words only, with an index of first lines.
Thaddus Mason Harris, D. D. (1768-1842), Harvard graduate (1787), appointed librarian there in 1781. In 1789 he accepted a call from the First Unitarian Church at Dorchester, and was pastor there until 1839. He was one of the founding members of the American Antiquarian Society.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.