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]. 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..... More