Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, for the Use of Children

Watts, Isaac

Published by London ; Printed for J(ohn) Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry; and J(ames) Buckland, at the Buck in Paternoster Row. 1747., 1747

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An early edition of Watt's Divine songs ? No copy traced______________ Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, for the Use of Children. The Nineteenth Edition, With some additional Composures._____________ London ; Printed for J(ohn) Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry; and J(ames) Buckland, at the Buck in Paternoster Row. 1747._________ 58 pages, 1p advert. 12Mo 13 x 9cm, complete.__________ Original full calf binding, very worn with some loss of leather, boards holding on vellum threads. Lacking blank endpapers, front end paper with conservation tape repairs, many other pages with small chips and tears (occasional minor loss of a letter but never the sense), one leaf with neat repair replacing of 3 lines in facsimile, soiled throughout. Overall a poor to fair example, but apparently the only surviving copy of this edition which was previously known only from adverts in contemporary publications.--------(See: A Descriptive Bibliography of British and Irish Editions of Isaac Watts's Divine Songs (1715 -ca. 1830) Tielke, Uvin ). Seller Inventory # 000027

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Title: Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, ...

Publisher: London ; Printed for J(ohn) Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry; and J(ames) Buckland, at the Buck in Paternoster Row. 1747.

Publication Date: 1747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor