Watts, Isaac. Caniadau Sion; sef casgliad o Hymnau a Salmau: Yr Hymnau, gan mmwyaf, o waith y parch. William Williams, Gynt o Bant y Celyn, a Isaac Watts: A'r Salmau gan Edmund Prys, Gynt Arch-Diacon Meirionydd. Utica: William Williams, 1827. First Edition. [9916]
Full calf, rubbed at the edges, joints good, 12.5 x 7 cm (5 x 2 3/4 inches). 1827 inscription on the ffep. (i)-xvi, 25-344 pp., last leaf lacking top half. Text counted and complete, matching OCLC 44485670. Good. Full calf.
A Welsh version of Isaac Watts's Psalms, with some of Timothy Dwight's Hymns in English, and ending with Edmund Prys's Crynodee o Lyfr y Salmau, o Gyfiethiad a Chyfansoddiad y Diweddar, which is another Welsh Psalter.
"Pages 253 to 266 contain the English version of a few hymns from the selection in use among the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in America. By Timothy Dwight, D.D. President of Yale College. The type for the Welsh Hymnal was set up by Mr. Williams' eldest son, S. Wells Williams." - Williams, John Camp. An Oneida County Printer: William Williams, Printer, Publisher, Editor. p. 117.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
