Himes & Wilson. A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors (1817) Baptist Hymnal

Himes, Paul; Wilson, Jonathan. A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors; By Elders Paul Himes and Jonathan Wilson. Greenfield, Mass: Printed by Ansel Phelps, 1817. First Edition. [8522] Full calf, 14 x 8.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches), joints fine, lacks the front & rear blanks, title page torn with loss at top corner. 314 (of 324) pp., lacking the ending of the final hymn and the entire table of first lines; leaf 177-78 torn with loss of a few letters; several leaves with closed tears or chips with no loss of text. Good. Full leather. Shaw & Shoemaker 41044."Baptist congregations in this period had an active devotional life beyond Sunday worship. Evangelistic meetings, revivals, conference meetings, and social worship all called for less formal hymnody, often characterized as 'spiritual songs.' Collections of these texts, often linked with folk tunes, were also used for services in churches that worshiped in a more popular style...The continuance of the awakenings is reflected