Williams, Ira. Christian Devotion for Conference and Prayer Meetings, and other Religious Worship: Select Hymns, from other Authors. Providence: Amsbury & Lincoln, Printers, 1847. Second Edition. [8463]
Full calf, black calf title label, binding scuffed with cracked rear outer hinge, board attached by cords, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 236 pp., light foxing, tight. "Philip A. Sweet" in pencil at the first page of hymns. Good. Full calf.
Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, W4612. WorldCat with 4 locations for the first edition, none for the second. This "second edition" was printed the same year as the first.
Elder Ira Williams, b. ca. 1809, "Late pastor of the Baptist Church in Johnston." A stone cutter who also served as pastor of the Baptist Church in Johnston, who lived in nearby Graniteville, Rhode Island.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.