To learn to sing, observe these rules.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Thomas, 1708-1767, engraver.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study.

Music.

Genre:

Hymnals.

Physical Description:

16leaves of plates : chiefly music ; 8⁰

Other Title:

Rules for singing.

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Engrav'd printed & sold by Thos. Johnston Boston N.E. ., [1755??]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Engraved throughout. Consists of musical instruction and hymn tunes, printed on alternate facing rectos and versos.

Issued without title page. Title from first line of text. The imprint is given at the foot of the first two leaves.

The only located copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is cropped with loss of imprint information from leaf 2. Johnston printed the same text from a different set of plates in 1755 (cf. Evans 7442).

This text, in its several Johnston editions and impressions, is generally found bound with one of the several Boston editions of Brady and Tate or Watts' version of the Psalms.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, W15533.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.