Juvenile lyre, or, Hymns and songs, religious, moral, and cheerful
Subtitle: set to appropriate music : for the use of primary and common schools
Contributors: Ives, E. (Elam), 1802-1864, contributor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook; H. & F.J. Huntington
Published: 1831
Place of publication: Boston; Hartford [Connecticut]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: English School songbooks; English Hymns; Children's songs, English
Other titles: Juvenile lyre; Hymns and songs, religious, moral, and cheerful
Work titles: Juvenile lyre
Notes: Primarily songs with keyboard acc.

Preface signed: Lowell Mason, E. Ives, Jr.

First setting to music of Mary's Lamb (or Mary had a little lamb), page 61.

This compilation is the first book of secular school-songs to be published in America.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.