Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New-York: Carlton & Porter, (1849). Revised Edition.[11016]
Full leather binding, red leather spine title label, some edge-wear, small chips at the spine ends, 16 x 10 cm (6 1/4 x 4 inches). Small ink name stamp on the front paste-down, inked "Sept 1962" below it; same stamp on the tp without the date. Lacks the front free fly page (blank). 752 generally clean pp., bottom page corners with chew marks (a feast for a mouse!), the last few leaves with a stain in the bottom corner, rear end paper hinge partly open. Fair. Hardcover.
This will look handsome on your shelf, and will supply all of the hymns of the 1849 Revised Edition.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
