Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music FIRST EDITION 1810 shape note tunebook

Wyeth, John. Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music. Selected from the most Eminent and Approved Authors in that Science, for the use of Christian Churches of Every Denomination, Singing-Schools & Private Societies. Together with a plain and concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, and Rules for Learners. Harrisburgh, Penn.: Printed (typographically) at Harrisburgh, Penn. by John Wyeth, Printer and Bookseller, and sold by him, and by the principal Booksellers in the United States, 1810. First Edition. [8771] Full leather with old crude hand-sewn repairs, front detached and in two pieces (once sewn together but now again separated), all very worn. Oblong 13.5 cm (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches), contemporary notes in several hands on the end papers. 120 pp., text complete. Lacks the rear free end papers. Good. Hardcover. Stanislaw 296. "Widely copied by the German four-shape book compilers." Britton, Lowens & Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810, no. 541. "129 compositions,