My little hymn book
Contributors: Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748; Taylor, Ann, 1782-1866
Publisher: Published by S.A. Howland.
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Worcester [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: English Hymns; Texts; Conduct of life; Juvenile poetry; Children; Religious life; Christian life; Children's poetry; American Chapbooks; Specimens; Children's stories
Other titles: Little hymn book; Juvenile songster.
Notes: Without music.

Cover title.

The first part includes hymns by Isaac Watts.

"Hymns for infant minds" ascribed to Ann and Jane Taylor. This is a selection from a larger work with this title; cf. NUC pre-1956.

Each part has an individual illustrated t.p., all with imprints reading: Worcester: Published by S.A. Howland.

S.A. Howland published as an individual from 1842 to 1853; cf. American Antiquarian Society records with this publisher.

Page 16 of "Hymns for infant minds" wrongly numbered 61.

Heavily illustrated.

Illustrations on sectional title pages as follows: in "Little Hymn book," a boy handing a book to a man; in "Hymns for infant minds," a teacher with a class of small children; in "Juvenile songster," a landscape.

Appears in another edition with different illustrations and with printer statement appearing below the publisher's imprint on title pages.

Rare Book copy: With the sections bound in the following order: Little hymn book, Hymns for infant minds, Juvenile songster.

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.

In publisher's binding of quarter cloth with printed paper sides.
Table of contents: title: Little hymn book; title: Juvenile songster; title: Hymns for infant minds.