Item #128874 Supplement to the Christian Lyre, containing more than One Hundred Psalm Tunes, such as are most used in Churches of All Denominations. Joshua LEAVITT.
Supplement to the Christian Lyre, containing more than One Hundred Psalm Tunes, such as are most used in Churches of All Denominations
Supplement to the Christian Lyre, containing more than One Hundred Psalm Tunes, such as are most used in Churches of All Denominations

Supplement to the Christian Lyre, containing more than One Hundred Psalm Tunes, such as are most used in Churches of All Denominations

New York, Jonathan Leavitt, 1831 [first edition].

Duodecimo, [ii] (title page, publisher's advertisement on the verso), 106 pages (music with lyrics).

Original cloth (with a paper title-label mounted on the front cover) a little bumped, marked and unevenly discoloured; spine lightly worn at the head, with a short split to the cloth at the foot of the rear joint; endpapers heavily foxed, with light scattered foxing elsewhere; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy with contemporary ownership details in ink on the title page ('Wm. Beamer, Grimsby, Sep 9th 1834'). The title-label is subtitled 'containing 106 Psalm Tunes').

Reverend Joshua Leavitt (1794-1873) was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who embarked on a lengthy 'career as social reformer, temperance spokesman, editor, abolitionist and religious proselytizer.... Leavitt published "The Christian Lyre" in 1830, the "first American tunebook to take the form of a modern hymnal, with music for every hymn (melody and bass only) and the multistanza hymns printed in full, under or beside the music". It later became one of the standard tunebooks used in the 1830s New England Revivalism movement' (Wikipedia).

Item #128874

Price (AUD): $220.00

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