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.

Author/creator Lyon, James
Other author Dawkins, Henry, -1786?, engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhilada. [i.e., New York] : [publisher not identified] Price 15s, [1773]
Description2 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xii, 198 pages of plates : music
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 12839. ^A478749
General noteProposals 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 ..., p. 134-147. Described here is the third impression (Evans 12839).
General noteSonneck distinguishes among the three impressions according to the following points. Some copies of the first impression lack one or both of the asterisks on p. 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.
General noteEngraved title page signed: Hen Dawkins fecit--1761.
References Evans 12839
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12839).
Genre/formHymnals.

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