A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1828) Methodist Camp Meeting Hymnal

A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs; designed to aid in the Devotions of Prayer, Conference, and Camp-Meetings. Concord, [NH]: Printed by Isaac Hill, 1828. [8498] Full worn leather binding, 3 x 5 1/4 inches, front end paper hinge open, 168 pp., lacks leaf pp. 87-88. Old stains, dark towards the end; one rear blank with large hole, some edge-tattering to the pages. Good. Full leather. WorldCat 1 location, AAS.   Several editions were printed at various places between 1825 and 1830. Our 1829 edition identifies the author as Reuben Peaslee (1777-1840), b. & d. at Plaistow, New Hampshire.  Rev. Peaslee was a Methodist minister and author of a tract about his life and ministry.One hymn is "In memory of the Rev. E. R. Sabin". We believe this to be Rev. Elijah Robinson Sabin (1776-1818), b. Tolland, Connecticut; d. Augusta, Georgia. Sabin was a Methodist minister who served as the Presiding Elder of the Vermont and Rhode Island Districts, and was previous to those appointments