McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Divine songs, in easy language, for the use of children / by I. Watts, D.D. Glasgow : Published by J. Lumsden & Son, 1814.

Alternative Title:

Divine songs
Divine songs for children

Creator:

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.

Contributor:

Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
James Lumsden & Son, publisher.

Publisher:

Published by J. Lumsden & Son, 1814.

Notes:

Illustrations are attributed to Thomas Bewick. Cf. Hugo, cited below.
Frontispiece is a portrait of Isaac Watts.
Frontispiece included in pagination.
First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
First sentence: "How glorious is our heav'nly King who reigns above the sky!"
Includes 10 woodcuts.
Citations/References: Hugo, T. Bewick, 320
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: full-page wood-cut portrait of Watts on frontispiece; 8 half-page cuts in text. Pink wrappers. Upper wrapper reads "From Ross's Juvenile Library." Lower wrapper with a reversible woodcut of a Schoolmaster and Merry Cobler (sic). Lumsden - Roscoe & Brimmell - #38. The Bewick Collector - Hugo - #320. Gumuchian - #1572, 1666. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N Feb/95. $275.00. Leaves cut open for the Chapbook Digitization Project, March 3, 2012.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 10 x 7 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Children's songs.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks.
Hymns.
Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Religious and Moral

Call Number:

PN970 L86 W3 1814 Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Sponsor:

The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8285

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_L86_W3_1814