Author: Brady, Nicholas and Tate, Nahum
Title: A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches
Publication Information: Boston: Printed by Samuel Etheridge for B. Larkin, W. Spotswood. 1795
Call #: BS1440 . B69 1795.
Book Size: 14.2 cm (H); 8.5 cm (L); 1.7 cm (spine)
Cover: red morocco (leather) cover; gilt embossed floral edging on front and back; front cover has an emblem/family crest ("Toujours Fidele" - always faithful). The spine has gilt stripes and flowers
Inside Book Covers: marblized (which would suggest later repair; not typical for late 18th C texts
Paper Edges:
Illustrations:
Comments:
- hymns in common metre, long metre, and particular metre - and each metre given for each hymn
- note that the hymns are collected chiefly from Dr. Watt's Hymns (p. 277 ff)
- think about this in terms of British texts crossing the Atlantic (esp. since Tate and Brady were long dead by the end of the 18 th C), and perhaps in terms of consistency in religious texts over time
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 18th-Century American Text Production
- Religious Culture
- British Texts Circulating in America
