The poetical works of Isaac Watts
Subtitle: With the life of the author
Series: Bell's edition. Poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill -- [v. 59-65]; Bell's edition -- [v. 59-65]
Publisher: At the Apollo press, by the Martins
Published: 1782
Place of publication: Edinburg
Language: eng
Description: This book was originally published in 1782. Part One of Seven. With the life of the author. A volume of the works of Isaac Watts who is universally acknowledged as The Father of English Hymnody. He has earned the title, not because he was first to write English hymns, but because he gave impetus to hymnody and established its place in the worship of the English church. He penned the Joy to the World, the most joyous of the carols, but Watts never intended it to be a Christmas carol. Rather, it was a part of his Psalms of David Imitated, published in 1719, which contained paraphrases of many of the Psalms in New Testament language. - Publisher.
Notes: Added t.-p., engr., with vignettes, by Stothard, dated 1782. Each volume has also special t.-p.

"The life of Dr. Isaac Watts" (v.1, p. [v]-xvii) is "taken from the Account of Dr. Watt's life and character prefixed to the quarto edition of his works in six vols. printed in 1753." cf. Foot-note, p. [v]

The preface , or, An Inquiry into the right way of fitting the Book of Psalms for Christian worship: p. [xix],-1.
Table of contents: title: VI. Horae lyricae in three books: poems chiefly of the lyrick kind, sacred I. To devotion and piety, II. To virtue, honour and friendship, III. To the memory of the dead; title: VII. His Div. hymns for sermons, Divine songs for children, Moral songs for children, Misc. thoughts, inscriptions, epigrams epitaphs, &c., &c., &c.