Jones & Burgiss. A Selection of Psalms & Hymns, Baptist Philadelphian Assn

Jones, Samuel; Burgiss, Allison. A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, done under the appointment of the Philadelphian Association. Philadelphia: Printed for Theophilus Harris, by Joseph Rakestraw, 1819. Fourth Edition. [9400] Full leather, both boards detached, leather has been treated with Cellugel to arrest red rot (powdery deterioration). 13 cm, ( 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches), paper spine label from the Library of the Newton Theological Institution. Page edges dyed red, xviii., (1)-410, [7] pp. Index. Text block very good, counted and complete. The binding is later, probably late 19th century, with end papers replaced. Good. Hardcover. "In its annual meeting for 1788, the Philadelphia Association appointed David Jones, Samuel Jones, and Burgiss Allison to prepare a hymnal. The product is A Selection of Psalms and Hymns. This book was the earliest compiled in America at the direction of such a Baptist body, and, bearing the imprimatur of this important group, it was influential...The book's edi