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PJ.760.036
15 May 1760:31 (910)
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. Watt'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.
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 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
July 1760 (after which time no subscription 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 and James
Lyon in Philadelphia; by Mr. Samuel Nivins in New Castle; by
Mr. Henry Loughhead in Oxford Township, Chester County; and
by Mr. 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, thro' our American
colonies; and, as the whole collection will be better fitted
to the use of churches and private families, than any ever
published in America, 'tis humbly expected the work will
meet with proper encouragement.
Philadelphia, May 8, 1760.
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