Totten John C Compiler (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Collins, Keese & Co., New York 1838
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Seller: Haaswurth Books, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.Haaswurth Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Twenty-fifth Edition. Full leather, small chips to spine ends, 4 x 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches, shaken, with nothing detached. Title page with camp meeting scene, 192 pages, complete. Index leaves with horizontal tear, nothing lost. Dark pencil or other black smudge marks on the front paste-down; lacks on fron…t free end paper, the other is torn with some loss. 141 hymns, words only; with index. First published in 1809, it was the earliest of its kind to print and include camp-meeting hymns, and it includes "the spiritual pattern of chorus and verse in all its intricacies, [this] was the product of the American frontier." Don Yoder, Pennsylvania Spirituals, (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Folklife Society, 1961) p. 6.John C. Totten (1778-1837), a New York City printer who printed many Methodist publications.With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
More imagesPublished by Printed and Sold by J. C. Totten, New-York 1819
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Seller: Haaswurth Books, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.Haaswurth Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Eleventh Edition. Full leather, very worn, the text block is separated from the binding, 10 x 6.5 cm (4 x 2 1/2 inches). 192 pp.; all leaves are present with 4 torn with loss of words, others torn with no loss of words, and old stains. 135 hymns, words only. First published in 1809, it was the earlies…t of its kind to print and include camp-meeting hymns, and it includes "the spiritual pattern of chorus and verse in all its intricacies, [this] was the product of the American frontier." Don Yoder, Pennsylvania Spirituals, (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Folklife Society, 1961) p. 6.John C. Totten (1778-1837), a New York City printer who printed many Methodist publications.With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
