A Christmas hymn
By: composed by Royall Tyler, chief justice of the state of Vermont, and sung at Claremont, N.H. 1793
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 47244
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1807
Place of publication: [Vermont?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Christmas music
Notes: Dated [1794?] by Bristol, who suggests that it was printed at Windsor, Vt. The hymn was printed in the Jan. 6, 1794, issue of the Eagle, Hanover, N.H., but this broadside version was printed between 1807 and 1813, the years during which Tyler was chief justice of Vermont

Slight variations between the editions appear in the fifth and sixth stanzas, and in the tenth stanza the first two lines are changed from "Let solemn viols sound, And breathing flutes combine" to "Let solemn organs sound, And sweetest cords [sic] combine."

Bristol B8900

Shipton & Mooney 47244

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47244)