Signatures (estimated) : [8] gatherings of [16] leaves ; wove paper

ca. 142 hymns ; most with tunes in close score for 1-4 voices with keyboard accompaniment ; each headed by title and author/composer names ; hymns without tunes headed by title and followed by author names ; many include key to corresponding tune ; ca. 16 recitations and responsorials for Sunday-schools

Includes indexes : "Index of topics" -- p. 252 ; "Index of titles" -- p. 253-254 ; "Index of first lines" -- p. 255-256

Copyright statement : dated 1903 -- t.p. ; individual copyright statements at the foot of many hymns

Preface : "The useful kind" : includes 2 Gloria patris and one doxology set to Old Hundred -- p. [2]

Includes hymns by Perronet, S. F. Smith, John Wesley, H. W. Baker, Bowring, Watts, C. Elliott, C. Wesley, H. Bonar, C. F. Alexander, Thomas Kelly, Doddridge, Cowper, and Fawcett ; Includes tunes by Hugg, Holden, Geibel, Mason, J. E. Gould, Webb, J. Husband, Dykes, I. Smith, W. B. Bradbury, E. A. Hoffman, Handel, W. J. Kirkpatrick, Barnby, F. S. Key, and Gounod

Binding of brown linen ; pressed boards and tan paper covers ; front cover bears t.p. information, with frame of straight rule

Inscription : "Carl Laubenstein" -- pencilled on front endpapers ; Frank Metcalf's bookplate -- front pastedown

Covers soiled and light-damaged ; linen torn ; sewing structure loose ; textblock brittle but undamaged

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