Chapel melodies
Subtitle: a collection of choice hymns and tunes (both old and new), designed for the use of prayer and social meetings and family devotion : containing, in addtion to new music, selections from the most popular compositions of the late William B. Bradbury and others
By: S.J. Vail and Rob't Lowry, editors
Contributors: Lowry, Robert, 1826-1899; Bradbury, William B. (William Batchelder), 1816-1868; Nutter, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1842-1928; Biglow & Main
Publisher: Published by Biglow & Main, No. 425 Broome Street, successors to William B. Bradbury
Published: 1868
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Gospel music; English Hymns; Home missions; Prayer meetings; Solos with piano; Duets; Evangelistic work
Other titles: Chapel melodies.
Notes: "Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1868, by Biglow & Main, in the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York"--t.p. verso.

256 numbered hymns, choruses, duets, solos, etc., mostly with music, for 227 tunes [short title header at text] (indicating title or tune name and meter, author or origin, occasional composer or source or copyright, cited scripture)--p. [3]-188.

Hymn [nos.] sharing single tune : 21-22, 24-25, 36-37, 38-39, 40-41, 42-43, 44-45, 112-113, 139-140, 141-142, 144-145, 146-147, 149-150, 154-155, 161-163, 164-165, 173-174, 177-178, 180-182, 186-187, 188-189, 198-201, 202-204, 205-207, 208-210, 211-212, 213-214, 218-219, 220-221, 222-224, 225-228, 229-232, 233-235, 236-238, 240-241, 243-244, 246-248, 249-250, 251-252. [Hymn no. 159 is for single voice only]

Includes index--[4] p. at end.

"... within limits ... collection of Christian Melodies, 'both old and new.' It affords material for the praise spirit of the conference meeting, and the less formal exercises of the home circle .... avoid ... trivialities ... does not descend ot anything ... objectionable .... contains no old song that has not won ... lodgment among the Lord's people ...."--Preface [t.p. verso.]

Tan paperboard covers ["yellow-back" edition] with black linen [patterned sand-grain] spine : front with full title, editors' statement, publishers' information and address--withing triple-line frame border [ornate vines at corners] ; back with publishers' advertisements.

Paper highly acidic and brittle. Covers worn.

C.S. Nutter's occasional inscriptions indicating authorship for individual hymns throughout.