Walden, J. H. The Social Psalmist: A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship. Troy, N. Y.: Kneeland and Co.'s Steam Press, 1848. First Edition. [10069]
Leather binding, crude sewn repair to spine, lacks the back board and the last 5 pp. of text (ends p. 218). 11.2 x 7.2 cm (4 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches). Poor. Hardcover.
Scarce, with only two locations at WorldCat.
The author was pastor of the North Baptist, or Fifth Baptist Church in Troy, N.Y., at the time of compilation. This hymnal is not in Starr's Baptist Bibliography, but Walden's 1840 book, The Scripture View of Baptism and the Lord's Supper (Brandon, Vt), is.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.