Psalms, carefully suited to the Christian worship in the United States of America: [electronic resource] : being an improvement of the old versions of the Psalms of David. : [Two lines from Luke]

Author
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
A new edition, corrected.
Published/​Created
New-York: : Published by John Tiebout and Sons, 238 Water-Street; Dodge and Sayre, 86 Broad-Way; W.B. Gilley, 92 Broad-Way; Henry I. Megary, 20 Wall-St. John L. Tiffany, 114 Broadway; and John C. Totten, 9 Bowery. J. Seymour, printer., 1817.
Description
vii, [2], 6-596 p. ; 19 cm.

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Series
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 40221. [More in this series]
Contains
Notes
  • Joel Barlow's revision of Isaac Watts' metrical version. Cf. Benson, L. The American revisions of Watts's Psalms (Philadelphia, 1903).
  • Error in paging: p. 277, 583 misnumbered 177, 183.
  • Includes indexes to Psalms by subject and first lines (p. [303]-316) and to hymns by subject, title, and first lines (p. [577]-594).
  • "The life of Isaac Watts, D.D. By Dr. Johnson. From his Lives of the most eminent English poets."--p. [iii]-vii.
  • "Hymns and spiritual songs. In three books. I. Collected from the Scriptures. II. Composed on divine subjects. III. Prepared for the Lord's Supper. By I Watts, D.D. [Four lines of quotations] New-York: Printed by J. Seymour, no. 49 John-Street. 1817."--p. [317]-596. With separate title page. Includes "A table of the Scriptures that are turned into verse" (p. [595]-596).
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 40221).
References
Shaw & Shoemaker 40221
Other format(s)
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place name(s)
United States New York New York.
Other title(s)
  • Bible. Psalms. English
  • Shaw-Shoemaker digital edition
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