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| Notes: 1828 miniature leather bound book (3.75" x 2.75"): reprints two of Isaac Watts' hymnals in one volume: Psalms of David (282 pages with index, 150 hymns), bound with Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Three Books (246 pages with index, includes 150, 170 and 45 hymns). Both published by Elijah Booth, 1828; Elizabeth-town, NJ. 3.75" x 2.75". Contemporary brown leather, with plain boards front and rear, and ornate gilt floral and ruled designs and with author's last name to the spine. Some faint penciled notations to front and rear endpapers. Binding is solid; leaves somewhat browned and with scattered foxing, but paper is still supple. Rear endpages are a bit tattered on the edges and corners. Textblock is splayed a bit, such that the block is thicker at the foredge than at the spine. Some edge wear, with underlying boards shwoing through at the foredge corners. Isaac Watts (extracted from his Brittanica biography) (7/17/1674 to 11/25/1748) was an English Nonconformist minister, and regarded as the father of English hymnody. This volumes collects 515 of Watts' hymns in one small volume. | |||||||||||||