Van Deventer, Cornelius. The New-Brunswick Collection of Sacred Music; A Selection of Tunes from the most approved Authors in Europe and America. Designed Principally for the Use of Churches. New-Brunswick, N. J.: J. Terhune, 1841. Eighth Edition, Enlarged and Improved. [8832]
Leather spine with printed paper over card, some loss of leather/paper with the boards creased and limp, 14.5 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches). (i.-xii. with xii. misnumbered as viii.), (9)-188. Complete text with 2 leaves (pp. 175-178) tattered with loss and detached. Good. Hardcover.
Stanislaw 215 (under Nevius). A four-shape shape-note tunebook.
The date 1840 is on the cover; 1841 is on the title page. The text is misnumbered in both copies of this edition that we have examined.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.