
Select Hymns for the Devotional Exercises of all Evangelical Denominations 1836
Linsley, James H.; Davis, Gustavus F. Select Hymns, adapted to the Devotional Exercises of all Evangelical Denominations. Hartford: Canfield and Robins, 1836. First Edition. [9401] Full leather with black leather title label, rear joint partly cracked, end paper hinges firm, 12 cm (4 3/4 x 3 inches). 460 numbered pp., nos. 129 & 130 are used twice, making the physical count 462 pp. Old dampstains throughout, dark in some places, rear board warped, spine with center crease and 1" crack. Fair. Hardcover. Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, L2527.James Harvey Linsley (1787-1843 and Gustavus Fellowes Davis (1797-1836), were both Baptist pastors in New England, with Linsley being "well known as a leader of conference meetings". They collaborated on this new hymnal; their Preface noting that they did not include any hymns from Winchell's Watts and that they desired to offer something new. "Among the uses proposed for this collection of 543 hymns and seven doxologies...are family worship, sabb