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PG-P.760.025
19 Jun 1760:43 (1643)
Proposals for printing by subscription; A Choice Collection
of Psalm Tunes and Anthems, from the best authors, with some
intirely new; and a number of Dr. Watts's and Mr. Addison's
hymns, 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-plates,
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
just 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 400 are subscribed for, the
tunes shall be engraved with all possible dispatch. But if
that 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.
Subscriptions are taken in by William Bradford, at the
London Coffee-house, and by said James Lyon, in
Philadelphia; by Samuel Nivins, in New-Castle; by Henry
Loughhead in Oxford Township, Chester County; and by
Jonathan Baldwin, in Prince Town, New Jersey.
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, it is humbly expected the work will
meet with proper encouragement.
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