1785 AMERICAN PSALMS. First Edition of De-Monarchized Version of Watts' Psalms and Hymns Puritan Very good state with some

Very good state with some handling and light stains in margins

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nicely patinated

1785 AMERICAN PSALMS. First Edition of De-Monarchized Version of Watts' Psalms and Hymns Puritan Very good state with someA superbly preserved first American revision of Watts' influential Psalms and Hymns. Watts original hymns were often deeply "English," appropriating Israel's monarchical language toward the British Crown in a way that too comfortably blended Church and State for the new Americans. Some other early American attempts at revision would attempt re appropriate the same Psalms that had been reconfigured by Watts toward the British Crown instead to America,