
Watts & Dwight. The Psalms of David, with Hymns 1822
Watts, I.; Dwight, Timothy. The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, And applied to the Christian Worship. A new Edition, In which the Psalms omitted by Dr. Watts are versified, local passages are altered, and a number of Psalms are versified anew, in proper Metres; By Timothy Dwight, D. D. President of Yale College. At the Request of the General Association of Connecticut. To the Psalms is added, a Selection of Hymns. New-York: Published and Sold by Charles Starr | Printed by D. Fanshaw, 1822. [9929] Full calf decorated in gilt, rear joint partly cracked, 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2 1/2 inches). Marbled end papers, lacking all free end papers, portion of front paste-down missing. (1)-320, (2), (323)-498 pp. Text complete; text block tight. Good. "After the American Revolution, it became early the general wish of the Churches and Congregations in this country, that such passages in Doctor Watts's version of the Psalms, as were local [i.e. British], and inapplicable to o