Manchester, Wm. C. Songs of Zion, or Conference Hymns (1835) Baptist Hymnal

Manchester, Wm. C. Songs of Zion, or Conference Hymns, Selected and Original; To which are added, A brief Sketch of the Author's Life and Experience; an Obituary Notice of his late Father, and some Remarks on the Science of Music. Providence: H. H. Brown, 1835. Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. [8519] Full calf, scuffed & rubbed yet with no cracks, black spine title label, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 224 pp. of text, complete. Ffep torn with loss, last two leaves of index torn at bottom margin with loss of few words, many top corner tips torn away - it looks like the corner was burned and put out (probably from reading with a candle). Good. Full calf. WorldCat with 5 locations."The great improvement of the present edition is, that it contains about thirty new Hymns, which have been carefully selected from a rich fund of materials, while it retains nearly all of the Hymns contained in the former editions, which may be found in this by referring to them in the Index....As it is the cus