The Harmonist: being A Collection of tunes from the most approved Authors; adapted to every variety of metre in the Methodist Hymn-Book. And, for particular occasions, A Selection of Anthems, Pieces, and Sentences. New-York: T. Mason & G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church...James Collord, Printer., 1837. New Edition, in Patent Notes - Revised and Greatly Enlarged. [8778]
Leather spine, printed paper boards, scuffed and worn. Oblong 15 cm ( 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), (iii.)-xiv., 1-384 pp. DEFECTIVE: lacking title page, (text otherwise complete). Good. Hardcover.
Stanislaw 76. The first edition of this four-shape shape-note tunebook. "Probably by Timothy B. Mason and/or William C. Brown...The Harmonist was a revised continuation of The Methodist Harmonist."
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.