The Psalms of David imitated in the Language of the New Testament ... [Bound with:] Hymns and Spiritual Songs

  • 333, [1]; 287, [1]pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo
  • Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, and Manning & Loring, 1803
By (Bible in English, Psalms) Watts, Isaac
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, and Manning & Loring, 1803. 333, [1]; 287, [1]pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. Contemporary calf, covers with gilt roll tool border, flat spine gilt in six compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt roll tool along the turn-ins, minor wear and rubbing. Minor browning, staining and offsetting. Bookbinder's ticket on front pastedown (T. H. Burnton, Exeter, NH). 333, [1]; 287, [1]pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. A lovely early American binding by T. H. Burnton, in which the ornamental border of the title is likely used as inspiration for the tooling on the covers. According to Papantonio and Spawn & Kinsella, the binder T.H. Burnton, was active in New York from 1800-6 and later removed to Providence, RI; neither note a sojourn in Exeter, NH. Shaw 3814. On Burnton, see Papantonio 40 and Spawn & Kinsella 316

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