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NYM(G.760.021
23 Jun 1760:33 (410)
Proposals for printing by subscription, a choice collection
of psalm tunes and anthems, from the best authors, with some
entirely new, and a number of Dr. Watts's and Mr. Addison's
hymes set to music; To which will be prefixed, the plainest
and most useful rules of psalmody. By James Lyon, A.B.
Conditions. That the whole book be neatly engraved on
copper-plate, bound in the common form of music-books and
contain about 210 pages. That every person, at the time of
subscribing, pay one dollar, and the remainder (which shall
not exceed one dollar more) when the book is delivered. If
there are 400 subscribers, the sum above-mentioned will be
the price of each book; but if more the price will be
proportionably less. As soon as there is probability of
400 subscribed for, the tunes shall be engraved with all
possible dispatch. But if the number of subscribers cannot
be found, by the first of August 1760, (after which time no
subscriptions will be taken) the money shall be all returned
to the subscribers, by the gentlemen with whom they
subscribed.
N.B. As this is the first attempt of the kind to spread the
art of psalmody, in its perfection, through our American
colonies; and, as the whole collection will be better fitted
for the use of churches and private families, than any ever
published in America, 'tis humbly expected the work will
meet with proper encouragement.
*.*Subscriptions are taken in by John Brown, Clarke of the
Presbyterian Meeting House, in New-York, Thomas Brown, in
Newark, and Jonathan Baldwin, in Prince-Town.
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