Urania, or A choice collection of Psalm-tunes, anthems, and hymns : from the most approv'd authors, with some entirely new; in two, three, or four parts. : The whole peculiarly adapted to the use of churches and private families: : to which are prefix'd the plainest, & most necessary rules of psalmody. / By James Lyon, A.B.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lyon, James, 1735-1794, author.

Contributor:

• Dawkins, Henry, -1786?, engraver.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 8908.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Church music.
• Music--Instruction and study.
• Psalmody.

Genre:

• Hymnals.
• Subscription lists (Publishing)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates, xii, 198 pages of plates) : music

Place of Publication:

Philada. : [Printed by William Bradford?] Price 15s, [1761]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Proposals for publishing this work, dated May 8, 1760, were advertised by William Bradford in the Pennsylvania journal, May 22, 1760. Three impressions, all printed from the same plates, have been identified through newspaper advertisements: Philadelphia, 1761 (Evans 8908); Philadelphia, 1767 (Evans 10666); and New York, 1773 (Evans 12839). Cf. Sonneck, O.G. Francis Hopkinson ... and James Lyon ..., pages 134-147. Described here is the first impression (Evans 8908).
• Sonneck distinguishes among the three impressions according to the following points. Some copies of the first impression lack one or both of the asterisks on pages 50 and 165, while all copies of the other two impressions have both asterisks. A type-set subscribers' list was included with the first impression, but probably not with the other two. A type-set dedication and index were included with all impressions (re-set in each case); the first and second are distinguished from the third by the correction in the index of the misspelling "Standwich" to "Standish" in the third impression.
• Engraved title page signed: Hen Dawkins fecit--1761.
• 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 8908).

Cited in:

Evans 8908

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