Jeter J B Stow (7 results)

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Front board nearly detached. Hinges cracked. Owner's name on front endpage. (Baptist Church, Hymns, Psalms).

Hardcover. Repr. of 1843. 63, 708, 781-804 p.; 19.5 cm. Hymns (words only): 1180 + 106 in suppl., 14 doxologies. Indexes incl. first lines of all verses (Starr, A Baptist bibliography S9656 and Fo 2034) Fair red french morocco,gilt. Lower cover gone,upper cover loose.

1854. (16mo) Good to very good. 804pp. Decorative leather boards considerably worn, detaching, spine cracked yet legible, etcetc. Text good enough, devoutly read & slightly marked by former owner whose inscription to pastedown reads, in part, ". All alone and very lonely. I am alone too much. I long to be with those that left me many years ago.". With a Supplement by Fuller & Jeter.

Full leather. Condition: Good. Full blindstamped leather, black leather title label to spine, front joint good, rear partly cracked. 11.5 cm (4 1/2 x 3 inches), marbled page edges. Contemporary inscription on ffep, "Mrs. Mary L. Toles, Butternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y." 752 pp., lacks the rear free end papers; pages generally clean, some light stains on the first couple of leaves. An edition of Stow & Smith's The Psalmist, with a Supplement by Fuller & Jeter. The Supplement was intended to make the hymnal more attractive to the Baptists of the South and West, who thought that there were too many selections in it that they did not sing, and no representation of popular Southern hymns. The Supplement removed chants contained in The Psalmist (unused in the South) and adds 106 hymns of Southern interest."The first Baptist hymnal to achieve denominational status was The Psalmist (1843), compiled by two Massachusetts pastors, Baron Stow (1801-1869) of Boston's Baldwin Place Baptist Church and Samuel F. Smith (1808-1895) of the First Baptist Church of Newton. This began as a private enterprise by Stow and Smith, but by the time of its publication the book had received the stamp of the denomination's principal publishing house.the Psalmist holds 'the distinction of being the first hymnbook published by a national Baptist body in America.'.[It] is a large, well-organized, and comprehensive collection containing words only. Its 1,180 hymns are arranged into thirty-eight topics." - Music & Richardson, "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story", pp. 203-204.With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.

Full leather. Condition: Very good. Brown calf with blindstamped pattern, spine sometime replaced with smooth brown leather, original black calf title label on the replaced spine. 804 clean pp., tight. "A. Spear" in gilt on front. An edition of Stow & Smith's The Psalmist, with a Supplement by Fuller & Jeter. The Supplement was intended to make the hymnal more attractive to the Baptists of the South and West, who thought that there were too many selections in it that they did not sing, and no representation of popular Southern hymns. The Supplement removed chants contained in The Psalmist (unused in the South) and adds 106 hymns of Southern interest."The first Baptist hymnal to achieve denominational status was The Psalmist (1843), compiled by two Massachusetts pastors, Baron Stow (1801-1869) of Boston's Baldwin Place Baptist Church and Samuel F. Smith (1808-1895) of the First Baptist Church of Newton. This began as a private enterprise by Stow and Smith, but by the time of its publication the book had received the stap of the denomination's principal publishing house.the Psalmist holds 'the distinction of being the first hymnbook published by a national Baptist body in America.'.[It] is a large, well-organized, and comprehensive collection containing words only. Its 1,180 hymns are arranged into thirty-eight topics." - Music & Richardson, "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story", pp. 203-204.With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.

Full leather. Condition: Very good. Full morocco with gilt decoration to spine & both boards, binding very good with no cracks, corner tips worn through, 11.5 cm (4 1/2 x 3 inches). All page edges gilt, yellow end papers, light stain to the first few leaves, title page with insect damage in the margin. (48), 752 pp., tight. Infrequent foxing & creased corners, one leaf with small chip in bottom margin. A faint stain comes and goes in the bottom margin throughout. An edition of Stow & Smith's The Psalmist, with a Supplement by Fuller & Jeter. The Supplement was intended to make the hymnal more attractive to the Baptists of the South and West, who thought that there were too many selections in it that they did not sing, and no representation of popular Southern hymns. The Supplement removed chants contained in The Psalmist (unused in the South) and adds 106 hymns of Southern interest."The first Baptist hymnal to achieve denominational status was The Psalmist (1843), compiled by two Massachusetts pastors, Baron Stow (1801-1869) of Boston's Baldwin Place Baptist Church and Samuel F. Smith (1808-1895) of the First Baptist Church of Newton. This began as a private enterprise by Stow and Smith, but by the time of its publication the book had received the stap of the denomination's principal publishing house.the Psalmist holds 'the distinction of being the first hymnbook published by a national Baptist body in America.'.[It] is a large, well-organized, and comprehensive collection containing words only. Its 1,180 hymns are arranged into thirty-eight topics." - Music & Richardson, "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story", pp. 203-204.With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.

Early Printing. Full red leatrher with all edges gilt, gilt lettering and design, embossed in gilt with the name "Elizabeth Thompson". Quite good with sound and attractive binding, slight shelf wear and creasing to endpapers, slight foxing to endpapers and pastedown, offsetting from an old flower dried and pressed within.