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<dl><dd>Cop. 1-2 from Don Yoder Collection of American Hymnody</dd>
<dd>Ca. 281 hymns with tunes, anthems, and songs ; in close score ; for 1-4 voices with harmonies for keyboard accompaniment ; each headed by title, author/composer names</dd>
<dd>Copyright statement : dated 1866 -- t.p. verso</dd>
<dd>Includes index (p. 127-128)</dd>
<dd>Includes two sets of pagination : 1-128 at head of page and [129]-256 at foot of page, likely meant as companion to either Bradbury's golden censer or Golden chain</dd>
<dd>Preface : 'The new shower ... bring[s] the Sunday school and social religious meeting into closer sympathy ... [and] contains a larger and more choice variety of compositions designed for missionary and temperance meeting, Sunday school concerts and anniversaries ... some sixty choice, new pieces, and twenty hymns have been added ..."--T.p. verso</dd>
<dd>Includes poetry by F. Crosby, J. Pollard, K. Cameron, R. Lowry, L. Hart, L. Larcom, L. Baxter, M.A. Kidder, W.O. Bourne ; includes music by Mason, Hastings, Holden, Smith, Nageli, Seward, Foster, Root, Swan, and E. Miller</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Hymns, English; Missionaries; Temperance</div>
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<dl><dd>Bradbury, William B. (William Batchelder), 1816-1868</dd>
<dd>Biglow &amp; Main. pbl</dd>
<dd>Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman &amp; Co. pbl</dd></dl></div>
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