DIV: Lowell Mason bookplate.

MUDD WB 32698: Binder's title: Hymns and religious poetry, 8.

365 hymns (captioned for general subject [also in running text headers], theme or scriptural theme, meter), 5 doxologies [nos. 365-369] (captioned for theme, meter) ; without music.

Includes indexes : of first lines ; of subjects ; of texts ; [List] of the names and initials of the principal contributors, with the numbers of the hymns which they have furnished.

John Childs and Son, Bungay [printers]--t.p. and at end.

Contents describing subjects [also in running text headers] in 5 categories : Praise, worship and the Sabbath day ; Scripture doctrines and duties ; Religious experience ; Particular occasions ; Miscellaneous--2 p. following title and Preface, preceding text.

"A want ... of a greater variety than ... found in the collections generally used ... At first ... as an appendix to Dr. Watts ... [then as] an addition to our sacred poetry ..." ; excursus on faults of contemporary hymn books ; " ... the title 'Original Hymns' ... qualified. The majority ... composed by individuals of various ... denominations, expressly for the present volume" ; "Those [hymns which are of Charles Wesley] ... selected from a large collection by his own hand, never yet published ..." ; discussion of congregational singing needed to improve devotional poetry--Pref. 8 p. following title leaf (signed : J.L.).