SACRED POETRY. CONSISTING OF PSALMS AND HYMNS, ADAPTED TO CHRISTIAN DEVOTION, IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, WITH VARIATIONS AND ADDITIONS.
Belknap, Jeremy:
Boston. 1795. v,[1],267,[8],344pp. Thick 16mo. Contemporary calf. Front board detached, binding scuffed and worn. Tanned, titlepage bit dusty. Lower forecorner of titlepage torn with no loss of text. Old stamp of American Antiquarian Society on page 1. Rough but unsophisticated. The author was a determined antiquarian and founder of the first American historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society. This copy belonged to early AAS patron and president Stephen Salisbury, who signed it in 1796. EVANS 28258.
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