The Methodist pocket hymn-book, revised and improved
Subtitle: designed as a constant companion for the pious of all denominations
By: collected from various authors
Contributors: Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816; M'Kendree, William, 1757-1835; Arthur Billings Hunt Collection (Columbia University. Libraries)
Edition: 46th ed.
Publisher: Published by J. Soule and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, Abraham Paul, printer
Published: 1819
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Hymns; Methodist Church; English Hymns; Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Selection of hymns, from various authors, designed as a supplement to the Methodist pocket hymn-book.; Double hymn book.
Work titles: Hymnals
Notes: With: A selection of hymns, from various authors, designed as a supplement to the Methodist pocket hymn book / compiled under the direction of Bishop Asbury. 12th ed. New-York : J. Soule and T. Mason, 1819. 282, [14] p.

Introductory letter signed: William M'Kendree, Enoch George, Robert R. Roberts.

When these two hymn books were bound together, they became known as "The double hymn book"--McCutchan, R.G. Our hymnody, p. 10.

Without music.

Includes indexes.

Rare Book copy: Imperfect; title page wanting. Manuscript annotation on front pastedown identifies this as the 45th edition, 1818, but this is more likely the 46th edition, 1819, which is noted in other copies as bound with the supplement's 12th edition, 1819.

Rare Book copy: From the library of H. L. Hastings, with his ownership stamp.

Baker. Union catalogue, 2nd ed., 1991, 396 (Baker 444) (Methodist pocket hymn book)

Shaw & Shoemaker, 48685 (Methodist pocket hymn book)

Shaw & Shoemaker, 49394 (A selection of hymns)

Gift; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred C. & Madeleine Berol; 1966.