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1798 Christian Harmony, Receuil de cantiques, London imprint, book
1798 Christian Harmony, Receuil de cantiques, London imprint, book
[Christian Harmony]
Recueil de cantiques anciens et nouveaux
Cinquieme Edition, revue et augmentee
Londres, Bayles. 1798.
12mo. [1], pp. 346. Half calf with label to spine. Mottled boards. Overall good, first few pages a little stained. Manuscript ownership inscription to rear board.
Only one copy on OCLC [Bibliothèque nationale de France]. “Tous ces cantiques sont mis sur les aires de chansons et romances le plus en vogue” [Catalogue de vente des livres de Arthur Dinaux, du 20 octobre à 19 novembre 1864]. Fine Francophone hymnal published in London to serve the exile congregation. Possibly owned by the Belgian musicologist Francois Joseph Fetis who in 1806 undertook the revision of the Roman liturgical chants in the hope of discovering and establishing their original form.
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