A Christmas hymn / composed by Royall Tyler, chief justice of the state of Vermont, and sung at Claremont, N.H. 1793.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826, author.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47244.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christmas music.

Genre:

• Broadsides.
• Hymns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 pages))

Place of Publication:

[Vermont?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1807 and 1813]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Dated [1794?] by Bristol, who suggests that it was printed at Windsor, Vt. The hymn was printed in the Jan. 6, 1794, issue of the Eagle, Hanover, N.H., but this broadside version was printed between 1807 and 1813, the years during which Tyler was chief justice of Vermont.
• Slight variations between the editions appear in the fifth and sixth stanzas, and in the tenth stanza the first two lines are changed from "Let solemn viols sound, And breathing flutes combine" to "Let solemn organs sound, And sweetest cords [sic] combine."
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 47244).

Cited in:

• Bristol B8900
• Shipton and Mooney 47244

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