Hood, George. The Southern Church Melodist: A Collection of Sacred Music, consisting of a great variety of The Most Approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sentences, Chants, etc., selected and original; Intended for the Use of Schools, Choirs, and Social Meetings; Arranged for Four Voices, with a Figured Base for the Organ or Piano Forte. To which is prefixed, A Full and Complete Inductive Elementary Treatise; with practical Exercises. Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson, 1846. [8769]
Leather spine with peach printed paper over card, spine sometime covered in red cloth tape with plastic name label applied. Oblong 14 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. Front fly page detached, tear to title page repaired with pH neutral document repair tape. 192 pp., text complete. Good. Hardcover.
Stanislaw 108. A four-shape shape-note tunebook.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.