Urania, or A choice collection of Psalm-tunes, anthems, and hymns
Subtitle: from the most approv'd authors, with some entirely new; in two, three, or four parts. : The whole peculiarly adapted to the use of churches and private families: : to which are prefix'd the plainest, & most necessary rules of psalmody.
By: By James Lyon, A.B.
Contributors: Dawkins, Henry, d. 1786?, engraver.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 8908.
Publisher: [Printed by William Bradford?] Price 15s
Published: 1761
Place of publication: Philada
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Church music.; Music -- Instruction and study.; Psalmody.
Notes: Proposals for publishing this work, dated May 8, 1760, were advertised by William Bradford in the Pennsylvania journal, May 22, 1760. Three impressions, all printed from the same plates, have been identified through newspaper advertisements: Philadelphia, 1761 (Evans 8908); Philadelphia, 1767 (Evans 10666); and New York, 1773 (Evans 12839). Cf. Sonneck, O.G. Francis Hopkinson ... and James Lyon ..., p. 134-147.

Sonneck distinguishes among the three impressions according to the following points. Some copies of the first impression lack one or both of the asterisks on p. 50 and 165, while all copies of the other two impressions have both asterisks. A type-set subscribers' list was included with the first impression, but probably not with the other two. A type-set dedication and index were included with all impressions (re-set in each case); the first and second are distinguished from the third by the correction in the index of the misspelling "Standwich" to "Standish" in the third impression.

Engraved title page signed: Hen Dawkins fecit--1761.

Evans 8908.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 8908)