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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f57f44 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text +*.htm text +*.html text +*.png binary +*.jpg binary +*.svg text +*.pdf binary +*.bmp binary +*.zip binary +*.midi binary +*.mp3 binary diff --git a/78872-0.txt b/78872-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c4afce --- /dev/null +++ b/78872-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2692 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78872 *** + + + + + _The Divine and Moral Songs + of Isaac Watts_ + + + + + CONTENTS + + Frontispiece + Apologia + The Divine and Moral Songs of Isaac Watts + Bibliographical Notes + The British Editions + The American Editions + + + + +[Illustration: D^{r}. WATTS. _Bartolozzi Sculp._] + + + + + The Divine and Moral + SONGS + _of_ + ISAAC WATTS + + An _Essay_ thereon and a + tentative _List of Editions_ by + WILBUR MACEY STONE + + _Out of the Mouth of Babes and + Sucklings thou hast perfected + Praise._ Matt. XXI. 16 + + _NEW YORK_ + Privately printed for + _The Triptych_ + 1918 + + + + + _Apologia_ + + +The gathering of the data which are the bases of this little book was +an offshoot of my general interest in the collection of books made +for the children of long ago. This field is rich in human interest +and leads one into folk-lore and fairyland, a delightful avocation +for a man busy in the urgent bread-and-butter (and pie) struggle of +to-day. + +It was my intention and ardent desire to put forth this little story +in 1915, to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of the first +edition of the _Divine and Moral Songs_--but--“the best-laid plans +o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley”, and mine were ruthlessly spilled; +so instead of this book appearing in 1915, the dear old world has +made several stormy circuits of its orbit and the chronologers are +about to hang out the sign for 1919 before a kindly fate permitted +the fulfillment of my heart’s desire in this matter. But never mind, +I am doubtless the only one to be much annoyed, for the whole of 1915 +passed without the appearance of so much as a newspaper paragraph, +so far as I could discover, relative to the momentous fact that two +hundred years ago an immortal book first saw the light. + +It may be, however, of passing interest to note that the +one-hundredth anniversary of the _Divine Songs_ was celebrated by the +battle of Waterloo, and the two-hundredth anniversary found Europe in +the midst of a conflict to which that celebrated battle of 1815 now +seems like boys’ play. + +And so, with Herrick I say: + + “Goe thou forth my booke, though late; + Yet be timely fortunate, + It may chance good-luck may send + Thee a kinsman, or a friend, + That may harbour thee, when I, + With my fates neglected lye. + If thou know’st not where to dwell, + See, the fier’s by: _Farewell_.” + + W. M. S. + +September, 1918. + + + + + DIVINE + SONGS + + Attempted in Easy Language + for the Use of + CHILDREN. + + By _I. WATTS_. + + _Out of the Mouth of Babes and + Sucklings thou hast perfected + Praise._ Matt. xxi. 16. + + _LONDON_: + + Printed for _M. Lawrence_ at the Angel + in the _Poultry_. 1715. + + + + + _The Divine and Moral Songs of Isaac Watts_ + + +If the _New England Primer_ was the “little Bible” of New England, +Dr. Watts’s _Divine and Moral Songs_ has a worthy place beside it +as the “little Hymn-book”, not only of New England, but of old +England as well. These two juveniles appeared in close sequence and +for nearly one hundred and fifty years jointly contributed to the +infant joys, and doubtless sorrows, of our sturdy ancestors. Even +to-day well-nigh everyone is familiar with “Let dogs delight to bark +and bite” and “How doth the little busy bee improve each shining +hour”; but alas, ’tis rarely that a knowledge of their authorship is +associated with a knowledge of the rhymes. + +When these two little books were in vogue the principal object in +teaching children to read was to open to them the advantages of the +Christian religion. Therefore the children’s first essay, after +learning their letters, was to acquire a knowledge of the Scriptures +and the characters therein portrayed. In the _Primer_ the rhymed +alphabet began with “In Adam’s fall we sinnèd all” and ended with +“Zaccheus he, did climb a tree, his Lord to see”, each illustrated +with a thrilling wood-cut. The _Divine Songs_ opens with a “General +hymn of praise” and closes with the cradle hymn “Hush, my dear, lie +still and slumber”, all calculated to inculcate grace and wisdom. + +Before the middle of the nineteenth century modern influences toward +secularization in education crowded the _New England Primer_ into +oblivion, and it has survived only on the shelves of collectors and +in a few reprints as a curiosity of bygone days. The _Divine Songs_ +has fared better, as it is still kept in print by one or two of our +publishing concerns, and several beautiful, illustrated editions +have been issued in very recent years. The _New England Primer_ has +long been considered as having the highest record of editions and +quantity published of any of the old juveniles, but I am convinced +that it must yield first place to the _Divine Songs_. There are of +record about three hundred and fifty editions of the _Primer_, but +I have been able to gather about two hundred and fifty editions of +the _Divine Songs_ in the British list and over three hundred in the +American list. It would be impossible to state the total number of +copies printed, but assuming that the accepted estimate of six and +one half million for the _Primer_ is approximately correct, we must +grant that the _Divine Songs_ stands with a total number of copies to +its credit considerably in excess of that number. + + * * * * * + +Isaac Watts, the eldest of nine children, was born at Southampton +on the 17th of July, 1674, about sixteen years after the death of +Oliver Cromwell. His father was a schoolmaster, a man of excellent +mental attainments and a Dissenter who suffered persecution for his +convictions, even to the extent of imprisonment. This was during the +reign of Charles II, when nonconformity was looked upon as a crime. +Young Isaac was reared in this atmosphere of protest, and it is of +record that while the father lay in prison “Mrs. Watts was seen +sitting on a stone, near the prison door, suckling her son Isaac.” +Little Isaac was a precocious child, reading Latin at four, and was +known as a boy who loved his books more than his play. The result was +that his over-studious habits greatly militated against his health, +and during most of his life he was a physical weakling. + +A vivid pen-picture of this anemic boy in his school days is given in +a review of a new edition of some of his later works, in the _North +British Review_ in 1857. The reviewer writes: + + “In the gloomy reign of James II, the most diligent boy in + the Grammar School of Southampton was a little Puritan. So + tiny, that he would hardly have passed for eleven years of + age, he was so grave and good, as to be at once a model and + a reproof to his sturdier class-mates; and, although in + repose there was nothing peculiarly prepossessing in his + pale face, with its prominent cheekbones, and a forehead + far from lofty, the moment that some hard question posed + the form, the sparkling eye and the light nervous figure + quivering with the pent-up answer, betrayed the genius + and the scholar. Already he had made good proficiency in + French, Latin, and Greek, and had delighted his mother, + whilst he astonished his companions, by ingenious acrostics + and clever impromptu stanzas; and altogether, with his + quiet, docile disposition, and his precocious attainments, + he made glad the heart of the Rev. Mr. Pinhorn, who, like + many a disconsolate preceptor before and since, at last + foresaw a dim and distant Ararat, and hailed the youth who + should yet ‘comfort him concerning his work and the toil of + his hands.’” + +When he was twenty-two, in 1696, young Watts became tutor to the +children of a wealthy friend of his family at Stoke-Newington, and +two years later, while thus employed, he preached his first sermon +on his twenty-fourth birthday as assistant to Dr. Chauncy, minister +of the Independent congregation in Mark Lane, London. In 1702 he +succeeded to Dr. Chauncy’s pastorate, taking full charge of the +congregation. But his frail health soon necessitated an assistant +with whom to share his burdens. + +In Dr. Watts’s congregation was Sir Thomas Abney and his family. Sir +Thomas was for many years an alderman of the city of London and at +one time its mayor. Dr. Watts in 1712, at the age of thirty-eight, +succumbed to the arduous tasks of his ministry and quite collapsed. +Lady Abney, ever alert in good works, took the worthy parson to +Theobalds, their country home at Stoke-Newington, for a few weeks’ +rest and fresh air. His visit has come down to us as a record for +length. The weeks sped on and then the years, and still he continued +a welcome and honored guest until his death thirty-six years after +his advent to that hospitable household. While under the sheltering +roof of Theobalds, Dr. Watts wrote several of his justly celebrated +works and in 1715 gave to the world the memorable volume of _Divine +Songs for Children_. In graceful acknowledgment of his guestship, he +dedicated that little book to Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth Abney, the +three daughters of Sir Thomas and Lady Abney. One of the two known +copies of the first edition of the _Divine Songs_ bears on the inside +of its front cover in Dr. Watts’s handwriting, “To Mrs. Elizabeth +Abney, I. W.” Of course Elizabeth, a child of eleven, was not “Mrs.” +in our present understanding of that term, but “Mistress”, used as an +expression of respect even to children at that time. + +This presentation copy has found a home in the sumptuous library of +the late J. Pierpont Morgan, and another first edition of one of +Dr. Watts’s books in that library is similarly inscribed to another +daughter of the Abneys’. + +The Morgan copy of the first edition of _Divine Songs_ was specially +bound in red morocco rather elaborately gold-tooled. This copy had +an interesting career before reaching its present resting-place. It +was picked up by a Nottingham bookseller with a handful of other +old books in a country house in 1902, at a cost of less than a +guinea for the lot. It had come down to its previous owner from +her great-grandfather, Meredith Townsend, co-pastor with Dr. Watts +at Stoke-Newington. The bookseller sold it to Mr. James Ward, a +collector of Nottingham, for about £30 and by him it was sold at +Sotheby’s, after spirited bidding, for £155 to Mr. Morgan’s agent. +The following Christmas, in a privately printed booklet, Mr. Ward +distributed to a few friends a most interesting history of this +little volume. + +In the thirteen pages of dedication which appears in the earlier +editions of the _Divine Songs_, Dr. Watts pays pleasing tribute to +the hospitality of the Abney family, beginning as follows: + + “My Dear Young Friends, Whom I am constrain’d to love + and honour by many Obligations. It was the generous + and condescending Friendship of your Parents under my + weak Circumstances of Health; that brought me to their + Country-Seat for the Benefit of the Air; but it was an + Instance of most uncommon Kindness, to supply me there + so cheerfully for two Years of Sickness with the richest + Conveniences of Life. Such a Favour requires my most + affectionate Returns of Service to themselves, and to all + that is dear to them; and meer Gratitude demands some + solemn and public acknowledgment.” + +The dedication then goes on to praise not only Sir Thomas and his +wife, but particularly their three daughters whose education Dr. +Watts superintended, and closes with the following benediction: + + “May the Blessings of his Right Hand more enrich you daily, + as your Capacities and your Years increase; and may he add + bountifully of the Favours of his Left Hand, Riches and + Honour. May his Grace make you so large a Return of all the + Kindness I have received in your Family, as may prevail + above the fondest Hopes of your Parents, and even exceed + the warmest Prayers of + Your most Affectionate + Monitor and Obliged + Servant, in the daily + Views of a future + World, + I. WATTS. + Theobalds, + June 18, + 1715.” + +This quaint dedication was omitted from those editions printed after +1750, but the preface, “To all that are concerned in the Education of +Children”, has persisted to this day in nearly every edition that has +come to my observation. This preface is addressed to “My Friends”, +and begins “It is an awful and important Charge, that is committed +to you. The Wisdom and Welfare of the succeeding Generation are +entrusted with you beforehand, and depend much on your Conduct.... +Verse was at first design’d for the Service of God, though it hath +been wretchedly abused since.... What is learnt in _Verse_, is +longer retained in Memory, and sooner recollected.... These _Divine +Songs_ may be a pleasant and proper Matter for their daily or weekly +Worship, to sing one in the Family, at such time as the Parents or +Governors shall appoint; and therefore I have confined the Verse to +the most usual Psalm Tunes. The greatest Part of this little Book +was composed several Years ago, at the Request of a Friend, who has +been long engag’d in the Work of Catechising a very great Number of +Children of all kinds, and with abundant Skill and Success. So that +you will find here nothing that savours of a Party: The Children +of high and low Degree, of the Church of _England_ or Dissenters, +baptized in Infancy, or not, may all join together in these Songs. +And as I have endeavoured to sink the Language to a Level of a +Child’s Understanding, and yet to keep it (if possible) above +Contempt; so I have design’d to profit all (if possible) and offend +none.” + +Then he closes with a reference to the _Moral Songs_ as follows: +“I have added at the End an Attempt or two of _Sonnets_ on _Moral +Subjects_ for Children, with an Air of Pleasantry, to provoke +some fitter Pen to write a little Book of them.” The earliest +record I have found of one so “provoked” is in the preface to Mrs. +Barbauld’s “Hymns in Prose, For Children”, published about 1775. +There she writes, “Among the number of Books composed for the use of +children, though there are many, and some on a very rational plan, +which unfold the system, and give a summary of the doctrines of +Religion, it would be difficult to find _one_ calculated to assist +them in the devotional part of it, except indeed _Dr. Watts’s Hymns +for Children_. These are in pretty general use; and the Author is +deservedly honoured for the condescension of his Muse; which is very +able to take a loftier flight.” + +It is not, however, until the early part of the nineteenth century +that I find a work in direct imitation of Dr. Watts’s little book. +Then in close sequence several volumes of verses for children +appeared, the authors of each of which acknowledged the impetus to +their muse from Dr. Watts’s preface. The first of these was “Moral +Songs for the Instruction and Amusement of Children Intended as a +Companion to Dr. Watts’ Divine Songs, by John Oakman and Others.” +This was published in London in 1802 by Darton and Harvey. The +preface states, “Whoever follows the manner of another who has been +happy in any particular way, however successful he may prove in his +labours, will only gain the servile name of an imitator. A man so +eminent as Dr. Watts has been in his Hymns and Moral Songs, for the +edification of children, it must be granted, there is little hope +of following with much success.... But as he declared himself there +is much room left to proceed in the same way, and has in a manner +exhorted others to pursue his ideas, the Author of this little book +hopes to be excused for the attempt if not applauded.” And surely +the author of these later “Moral Songs” is open to the accusation of +being a “servile imitator”, as witness one extract: + + + _Danger of Mispending Time_ + + How craftily the spider weaves, + And draws her slender threads! + Yet sudden chance her hopes deceives, + And spoils the net she spreads. + + Let me not spend my precious hours + In trifling works like these; + But still employ my active pow’rs + In what may truly please. + +The style well copied but the inspiration feeble and the moral hardly +deducible from the subject. A few years later, the Taylor sisters, +Jane, Ann, Mary and the rest of them, who had in 1803 been very +successful with their “Original Poems for Infant Minds”, published a +volume entitled “Hymns for Infant Minds”. These young women in their +preface acknowledge their indebtedness to Dr. Watts as follows: + + “The ‘Divine Songs’ of Dr. Watts, so beautiful, and + so universally admired, almost discourage, by their + excellence, a similar attempt; and lead the way, where it + appears temerity to follow. But as the narrow limits to + which he confined himself, excluded a number of useful + subjects, the following Hymns, though with much diffidence, + are presented to the public.” + +It was not long after the _Divine Songs_ rode into popularity on wave +after wave of editions that itching fingers began to busy themselves +with alterations and modifications of these simple and sincere +verses. As early as 1720 one Cobbin, a reverend doctor, conceived the +idea that the work would be more useful with Scripture references +appended to each song. So he forthwith lumbered up the little volume +with voluminous footnotes of references and comments, but thanks be, +the dear children could skip all this dry stuff. + +Then later the strong theology of some of the songs annoyed our good +friends the Unitarians and they, by the hand of one who modestly +subscribed herself on the title-page as “A Lady”, proceeded to take +the starch out of some of the more rigid ones, to sprinkle in a +little “probation after death” and entirely omit Song III, “Praise +to God for redemption through Jesus Christ.” That song was a bit +too Trinitarian for remodeling. Dr. Watts’s delightful preface is +omitted and a new preface setting forth the reasons for revision and +alteration, is substituted. This is signed “E. Y.” and dated November +17, 1785. + +This “Revised and Altered” form evidently proved popular, as a second +edition appeared in 1787, with an added note that “A large impression +of the first edition of these Hymns, Revised and Altered, having been +favorably received by the public, the editor has been encouraged to +give further attention to their improvement, and to cause them to be +printed in their present form.” The fair reviser was brave enough to +retain Song XI, “Heaven and Hell”, but replaced Dr. Watts’s second +stanza + + “There is a dreadful Hell, + And everlasting Pains, + Where Sinners must with Devils dwell, + In Darkness, Fire, and Chains.” + +with the following, much more comforting to a naughty world + + “There also is a future state, + Of Mis’ry, grief and pain; + Where wicked children long must wait, + And many years remain.” + +And in verse 4, Dr. Watts wrote + + “Lest I should be cut off Today, + And sent t’ eternal Death.” + +for the last line of which she has substituted + + “And suffer after death.” + +In the first verse of Song XII, “The Advantages of early Religion”, +Dr. Watts’s last line reads + + “The Road that leads to Hell.” + +and which our tender reviser changes to + + “The Road that leads to ill.” + +In Song XIII, verse 5, Dr. Watts wrote + + “One stroke of his almighty Rod, + Shall send young Sinners quick to Hell.” + +Our reviser changed the last line to read + + “May send young sinners to the grave.” + + “Jesus who reigns above the Sky, + And keeps the World in Awe,” + +are the first two lines of verse 2, Song XIV. These are changed to + + “Jesus tho’ now above the sky, + Belovèd by his God”. + +The last verse of Song XV begins + + “Then let me always watch my Lips, + Lest I be struck to Death and Hell.” + +The second line is altered to + + “And keep my Tongue from ill.” + +In verse 4 of Song XVII Dr. Watts wrote + + “The Devil tempts one Mother’s Son,” + +The revised edition reads + + “Passion, and Pride, may tempt each one”. + +From the revised version of Song XVIII, “Against Scoffing and calling +Names”, the reference to the children who scoffed Elisha is omitted +by dropping out verses 4 and 5, as follows: + + “When Children in their wanton Play, + Serv’d old Elisha so; + And bid the Prophet go his Way, + ‘Go up, thou Bald-head, go’; + + “God quickly stopt their wicked Breath, + And sent two raging Bears, + That tore them Limb from Limb to Death, + With Blood, and Groans, and Tears.” + +In Song XXIII, “Obedience to Parents”, verse 3 was originally written + + “What heavy Guilt upon him lies! + How cursèd is his Name! + The Ravens shall pick out his Eyes, + And Eagles eat the same.” + +has been softened to the following: + + “What heavy Guilt upon him lies! + How hateful is his Name! + Who thus his Parents shall despise, + Will bring Himself to Shame.” + +Listed among the _Divine Songs_ in the British Museum are the +following collateral items: “Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. +(A sequel to Dr. Watts’s divine songs for children and schools.) +The Rake reformed in the House of Mourning. The Cottage Library of +Christian Knowledge etc. Vol. I.” 1806 (?) 8^{o}; and “A Supplement +to Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs for the use of Children, selected from +various authors. London.” 1820 (?) 12^{o}. + +From another source I find, “Essays adapted to Dr. Watts’ Divine +Songs. For the instruction of young people. By Rev. A. Scott. 13th +edition. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg. 1841. Illustrated.” + +In an edition published in Exeter, in 1812, entitled “Dr. Watts’s +Hymns for Children, Revised and Altered, so as to render them of +General Use”, the editor, who modestly signs himself “C”, explains +as follows: “Dr. Watts, in the Preface to his Divine and Moral Songs +for Children, says; ‘You will see here nothing that savours of a +party,’ nevertheless it cannot be denied, that, in several parts of +these Hymns, expressions do occur, which are objectionable to many +Christians; and which, there is reason to believe, the amiable and +excellent Author would have avoided, had he written them toward +the latter part of his life.” Our editor then goes on to state +which obnoxious weeds he has uprooted and what new flowers he has +transplanted from other gardens. Of some of the latter he says: “The +next five, Nos. 9 to 13, I have taken the liberty of inserting from a +very superior little publication, entitled ‘Hymns for Infant Minds’.” +But even here our editor must have a slap at the theology of the +gentle “Taylor sisters”, and which he does in the following terms, +throwing in a sop at the end to mitigate the bitter: “I cannot agree +with the respectable Authors in some of the opinions which their +Hymns express, because I do not think those opinions are the doctrine +of the Scriptures; but I have no hesitation in earnestly recommending +the book to all judicious Parents.” + +The inscriptions of presentation and ownership in some of the old +copies of the _Divine Songs_ are quaintly interesting. In one, +printed in Boston in 1759, is found on the reverse of the title-page +in almost illegible characters, “Bithrah norton | hur buk”, and then +follows several words entirely undecipherable. Lower down on the page +in a later and more readable hand is written, “Sarah Norton her | +Book God Give her Grace therein to look | and when the bells do | for +her tole Lord Jesus | Christ” ... and there the leaf is torn off. + +In a London copy of 1773, which is thumbed well-nigh to pieces, +the fly-leaf is inscribed in elaborate childish printing, “SAMUEL, +HOVEY. | JUNR: & LYDIA, HOVEY. | JUNR. our BOOK GIVEN | To us By the +Schoolmast | er of Buxton July y^{e} 21^{st} 1774”. Then on the inside +of the front cover there appears in a crabbed running hand, “To +Mehitabel | And Phebe Hovey | This with our Love to you | Both for +you to remem | ber us by | Sam^{ll} Hovey | and Lydia Hovey”; while +near the foot of the inside of the front cover is inscribed in shaky +childish characters, “_R_Ut_h_ S_h_oR_t_ | _h_eR _b_oo_k_ | _a_ge_d_ +_s_e_v_e_n_ | _y_e_a_R_s_”. So this little volume bears records of +what seem to be three generations of lovers of these old songs. + +The fly-leaf of a copy printed in London in 1779 bears the +inscription in bold, childishly printed letters covering the whole +page, “William | shErWood | MARCh 23 | 1788”. + +In another copy bearing a London imprint and dated 1780 is “William +Hayward his Book | Drayton | October 16 1782”, all written the long +way of the page and apparently by a grown person. Later William +himself took a hand and in an upper unoccupied corner scribbled +“William | Haywood | Drayton | Berks”. + +In another London copy, 1787, in a fine feminine hand, is written +“Catherine Wright | her book | The Gift of the | Rev^{d} Dr. Priestly”. + +Inside the back cover of a copy printed in New Haven, Conn., in 1809, +is pasted a presentation book-plate, home-made, and bearing a border +of vine and leaves in green, while within the border is inscribed in +a fine schoolmistress hand, “Hannah Kendall’s Book | given her by her +Instructress | as a reward of merit”. + +A Boston copy of 1818 was once “George T. Read’s Book | Presented to +him by his Aunt Eliza Read 1856 | Belfast”; doubtless Belfast, Maine. +But an avaricious member of the family, doubtless of a later and +degenerate descent, ruthlessly crossed off this inscription and wrote +the long way of the page and nearer its base, “Charlotte Read’s Book”. + +The only record I have encountered to indicate that the _Divine +Songs_ was used regularly as a Sunday School song-book occurs in +a copy dated “London 1828.” Pasted on the reverse of the title in +this book is a label headed “The Protestant Dissenters’ | Sunday +School, | at | Christchurch Meeting.” This heading is followed by a +number of Biblical quotations beginning with “Suffer little children, +etc.” Pasted inside the back cover is a similar label similarly +headed. Then we find this admonition: “No scholar in this School +to be allowed to swear, lie, nor fight;--nor to be disobedient to +Masters, Parents, or Guardians”, followed by more Scripture texts, +and finally, “Sabbath Schools are of the utmost importance when +judiciously conducted.” + +In another, a New Haven, Conn., copy, 1824, on the title-page +itself is written “Master George and Miss S. E. Derby | from their +affectionate mother | August 2^{d} 1826”. Lower down on the same page +and in the same hand appears, “Suffer little children to come | unto +me for of such is the kingdom of Heaven”. + +And lastly, a modern copy containing numerous, most delightful, +colored illustrations by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin, is inscribed by the +artist to the author of this essay--a cherished possession. + +Numerous memorials and biographies of Dr. Watts have been written +since his death, but perhaps the most elaborate and exhaustive was +published in London in 1914, written by Thomas Wright, the author of +several other biographies of notable men of the past. In this work +considerable space is devoted to a relation of the environment and +influence under which the _Divine and Moral Songs_ were written. Mr. +Wright very circumstantially tells the story of a visit, “apparently +in the spring of 1720”, by Dr. Watts to Hedingham Castle, Essex, the +home of Mr. Robert Ashhurst, who had married Lady Abney’s sister. Our +author states that some of the _Divine and Moral Songs_ were written +there during that visit. He further relates, “The pretty poem ‘How +doth the little busy bee’ was probably not only a kindly message +to children, but also a humorous compliment to the industry and +taste displayed by Mr. Ashhurst in restoring his house.” But alas! +in view of the fact that at least two copies of the first edition, +each plainly dated 1715, are in existence, and one of which I have +minutely examined, our credulity is a bit overtaxed by Mr. Wright’s +narrative; and we wish he had not been so detailed and particular in +his description of events and circumstances that could not possibly +have occurred prior to or in connection with the writing of the +_Divine Songs_. We also read in the preface to the first edition of +1715, “The greater part of this little book was composed several +years ago at the request of a friend.” + +The revised edition, first published in 1785, continued to appear +over a long period, and as late as 1803, in the _Guardian of +Education_, is found a scathing review of this emasculated work. +Mrs. Trimmer, the editor of the _Guardian_, had previously been +accused of having been the reviser, but she emphatically denies all +responsibility and unequivocally censures the editor for having so +radically changed the theology set forth by Dr. Watts in these small +hymns. She further remarks, “The Hosannas in Dr. Watts’s original +work, are perfectly agreeable to Scripture, and so impressive, +that we cannot reconcile ourselves to the exchange of them for Dr. +Clarke’s. Neither can we readily part either with the ‘Hymn of Praise +to God for Redemption’; or with ‘The Cradle Hymn’. However, as +Christians, we wish not to deprive those who are satisfied with this +mutilated edition of the edification it still affords; but let them +on their side allow to the children of the Church the full benefit of +the author’s pious labours.” + +In this same volume is reviewed a little book published by Darton & +Harvey, entitled “Moral Songs for the Instruction and Amusement of +Children, intended as a companion to Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, by +John Oakman and others.” In reviewing this little work, Mrs. Trimmer +states, “Though Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs have excited many writers to +imitate them, they still remain unrivalled. No work of the kind that +we have yet met with, is worthy to be compared to them, for beauty of +composition and elegant simplicity of style.” + +Though a bit upsetting in chronological sequence, I cannot refrain +from referring here to another much later tribute by Mrs. S. C. Hall, +who in her “Pilgrimages to English Shrines” (Appleton, 1854), says of +Dr. Watts, “But after all, his popularity is based on the universal +knowledge of his Divine and Moral Songs; and never was popularity +more widely diffused, better merited or productive of more glorious +results.” + +Unscrupulous publishers continued to mutilate this little work, and +there are also some interesting differences between British and +American editions. In Song V as originally published God is praised + + “That I was born on British ground.” + +While in some of the American editions this form was retained, still +as early as 1799 in the Boston edition of Coverly it is changed to + + “That I was born on Christian ground.” + +In the Cambridge (U.S.) edition published by the trustees of +Phillips’ Academy, the last line of the fifth verse reads + + “Teach me thy goodness to admire.” + +while the original reads + + “Warn me to ’scape eternal fire.” + +The editor of this Cambridge edition fell into an error in the last +line of verse 1, Song XVI, that has persisted in many, many editions. +In the original this first verse reads: + + “Let Dogs delight to bark and bite, + For God hath made them so; + Let Bears and Lions growl and fight, + For ’tis their natures too.” + +The Cambridge error consisted in printing the last word of the verse +“to”. + +In many of the modern editions the old form “that” is changed to +“which”. + +The learned editor in Cambridge blundered in punctuation also. In +Song XV, verse 1, he inserted a comma in the last line after “all” +that quite destroys the sense; and again in the last line of verse 2, +Song XX, the comma inserted after “food” is worse than superfluous. + +Many publishers of juvenile books drew generously upon the storehouse +of the _Divine and Moral Songs_. In the 1781 Boston edition of +Janeway’s “Token for Children” are included Songs XII, XIII and XIV. +In “Choice Poetry” published at Derby, England, in 1835, are four of +the _Divine Songs_, two of the _Moral Songs_ and the Cradle Hymn. In +“Reading Made Easy” published by J. Weatherly, Berwick, about 1820, +under the general heading “Lessons in Verse”, are printed eight of +the _Divine Songs_. A number of editions of the _New England Primer_ +contain selections from the same source. + +Dr. Watts in his preface states that the _Divine and Moral Songs_ +were intended to be sung to well-known psalm tunes, but before the +end of the eighteenth century editions with special music began to +appear. In 1800 Dr. Jackson published an edition wherein words and +music were engraved throughout on copper plates. + +Although early in the eighteenth century many children’s books were +issued with illustrations, usually crude wood-cuts, I have been +unable to find an illustrated edition of the _Divine and Moral Songs_ +in England earlier than 1760 and in America earlier than 1773. In the +beginning of the nineteenth century illustrated editions were more +frequent, and one published in London in 1823 has an ornate folding +frontispiece in colors. With the revival of wood engraving between +1840 and 1850, there appeared a number of elaborately illustrated +editions with pictures by eminent artists. Perhaps the most +beautifully illustrated edition of this period was that published by +John Van Voorst in London. This appeared in 1848 and contains thirty +pictures drawn on the wood by C. W. Cope, A.R.A., and cut by John +Thompson. They are definitely illustrative of the text and are most +daintily conceived and executed. These illustrations were extensively +copied in later editions by other publishers, particularly in +America. The first issue of this edition contained on page 28 the +“Death Print” as a tailpiece to the song “Heaven and Hell”. This +picture was evidently too realistic and too fully illustrative of the +song, so it was promptly suppressed and replaced by one from a now +blank page farther on in the book. + +The size of the _Divine Songs_ has varied greatly, from the little +books published by Rusher of Banbury, 4½ by 2¾ inches, to the huge +volume 10¾ by 8½ inches, issued by Nisbet and Company, London. This +Nisbet edition is undated, but appears to have been published between +1870 and 1880, and is illustrated by such eminent artists as W. +Holman Hunt, George Du Maurier, H. K. Brown, Marcus Stone and others. +The pictures were reproduced by the “New Graphotype Engraving +Process”, apparently zinc etching. As early as 1810 selections from +the _Divine Songs_ with illustrations were engraved on copper and +arranged as a broadside school piece, the pictures being carefully +hand-colored. These “school pieces” were large sheets, 19 by 15 +inches, with a border of pictures and a blank space in the middle in +which the child wrote his “school piece” or composition. + +In 1855 an edition in book form was printed on cloth as an aid +to durability, while in 1849 an edition was issued with phonetic +spelling. Early in the nineteenth century “The Beggar’s Petition” +and “The Universal Prayer” were added and carried through numerous +editions. + +For many years following the first edition, this little book of songs +was of uniform size, carefully printed, well sewed, and bound in full +calf. It was a sturdy little volume and many copies of these early +editions have come down to us in excellent condition. + +A copy of the eighth edition, 1729, is cherished by its owner for the +following inscription on the fly-leaf, by the hand of Dr. Watts: + + “To My Dear Neece + Sarah Brackstone + I. W.” + +This Sarah was a daughter of Dr. Watts’s sister Sarah, who married +a Brackstone. Later, James Brackstone, a brother to Sarah the +daughter, was a London printer. The fifteenth edition of the _Divine +Songs_, 1739, was published by R. Hett and J. Brackstone, and the +sixteenth edition, 1740, bears Brackstone’s name alone, as publisher. +But alas, James proved a black sheep; in a letter written by Dr. +Watts in 1746 to his brother Enoch Watts, is the sad record that +James Brackstone was ejected from the church for “damning and cursing +in a shocking manner” his uncle Dr. Watts, and for declaring that he +would no longer be a member of his church. + +This presentation copy evidently soon descended to a younger member +of the family, as on the same fly-leaf that bears the inscription by +Dr. Watts is written in a childish hand, “Bety Brackstone Her Book +1730”, and on the fly-leaf at the back of the book appears “Bety +Brackstone, Her Book, God Give Grace therein to Look, but wen the bel +be gins to tole, Lord Jesus Christ reseive her Sole. A Men.” + +In the “English Primer” published by Mosley, Derby and London, about +1825, is printed the only rhyme directed to these songs, which I have +discovered. It is as follows: + + “What sweet-er book to me be-longs + Than Dr. Watts’s book of Songs? + O! I would learn them all the day, + I’m sure I love them more than play. + + “When I’m grown up,--yes, quite in age, + Still I shall love his plea-sing page; + Still I shall love the songs I sung, + That taught me good when I was young.” + +These verses, with a wood-cut above, occupy the whole of page 29. +The illustration is of a prig of a boy in chimney-pot hat, leaning +against a sun-dial in a garden. In the boy’s hands is the precious +volume which he is studiously perusing. + +A comparison of the _Divine Songs_ with other portions of Dr. +Watts’s writings reveals in many instances a correspondence in +subject-matter. The thought of Song XVIII, “Against scoffing and +calling names”, is used as part of one of his sermons; and Song XXII, +“Against pride in clothes”, appears in a slightly different dress +in another sermon. Song XXV, beginning “My God who makes the sun to +know”, is a simplified rendering of one of the hymns in his larger +hymn book. + +It is interesting to note that the _Divine and Moral Songs_ were not +composed during Dr. Watts’s youth, but after he had arrived at middle +life, a bachelor, a student and an invalid. It would not have been +surprising if he had at that time lost interest in children, even +if he did not find their company a burden. But his heart kept its +youthfulness, as the sweetness and simplicity of many of these songs +will testify, in spite of the rigid theology of others of them. And +so his Michaelmas summer brought up again the blossoms of spring and +wove therefrom a fragrant garland. + +One appreciative biographer, referring to the tender sentiments of +the Cradle Hymn, writes: “‘Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber’, +was written not by a young and loving mother bending over her baby +whom she all but stifles with kindness and kisses, but by a little +weazened retired bachelor, whose heart, however, was as warm, whose +ways were as gentle as those of the happiest and fondest mother.” + +The _Divine and Moral Songs_ was not by any means the only book for +children written by Dr. Watts. He was the author of several little +catechisms, graded from one for the smallest infants to others for +older children. In 1720 he published “The Art of Reading and Writing +English” and he also in 1725 wrote for the perusal of their elders, +“A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth”; while in +1728 was issued his “Prayers Composed For the Use and Imitation of +Children, Suited to their different Ages and their various Occasions.” + +Editions of the _Divine Songs_ appeared in Dutch and Welsh and one +was printed in India in English. + +The largest collection in a public library is that in the British +Museum where there are eighty-seven specimens, the earliest being +a copy of the ninth edition, dated 1728. The Bodleian Library at +Oxford has examples of thirty-three editions while in this country +the Boston Public Library and the American Antiquarian Society of +Worcester, Mass., each has a dozen, and the library of the General +Theological Seminary in New York nearly as many. + +And so may this little book of appreciation renew, at least in a +few hearts, the love and memory of those dear, quaint and sometimes +frightful songs that contributed so much of entertainment and joy to +the lives of nearly two centuries of English-speaking children both +in the old world and the new. + + + VALE + + +[Illustration] + + + + + _Bibliographical Notes and Lists of Editions_ + + + + + _Bibliographical Notes_ + + +Although for several generations last past, the little book which +we are considering has been known as the _Divine and Moral Songs_, +it did not always bear this full title. Throughout the first +seventy-five years of its existence it was known simply as the +“Divine Songs”, in spite of the fact that during all that time the +book contained “a slight specimen of Moral Songs”, from two in the +earlier editions to the full complement of seven later. I have seen +no copies of the 13th, 14th or 15th editions, but the 16th edition +(1740) has the title extended by the following words: “With some +additional composures”, that being the first title-page reference +to the _Moral Songs_ which I have found. No copy, issued by the +regular publishers, so far as I have discovered, ever bore the words +“and Moral Songs”. The first occurrence of the _Moral Songs_ in the +title, which I find, is in an edition issued in London in 1785, +under the name of “Dr. Watts’s Hymns and Moral Songs for the use of +Children Revised and Altered ... By a Lady.” It is not until 1794 +that I find the now well-known title of _Divine and Moral Songs_. +The twenty-seventh edition (1795) is the last one which I find +bearing the number of the edition, although the book continued to be +published by the same people or their successors at least until 1821. + +From 1785 numerous editions appeared bearing the names of other +publishers and “Printed by permission of the Proprietors.” The first +edition emanating in Great Britain outside of London, which I have +found, was printed in Welsh at Caerfyrddin in 1771, and in 1776 an +edition was published from Salisbury in English. A few Dutch items +have been included in the British list. + +Substantially all of the editions which have come to my attention +have on their title-pages the quotation from Matt. XXI, 16, “Out of +the mouth of babes, etc.”, but in the following list of editions that +quotation is indicated in the interest of brevity, except in the +first edition, by a few dashes after the author’s name. Where not +so indicated, it is not necessarily to be inferred that it does not +so appear, but only that the writer has been unable to verify that +appearance. + +A date followed by a question-mark in parentheses indicates that the +date is doubtful or approximate. + +In the following list of editions various references are abbreviated +as follows: + + _A.A._ American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. + _B._ Private collection. + _B.A._ Boston Athenæum. + _B.M._ Library of the British Museum. + _B.H._ Bates Hall Public Library, Boston, Mass. + _Bod._ Bodleian Library, Oxford. + _B.P._ Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N. Y. + _Bos._ Boston Public Library. + _Bro._ Brown University Library, Providence, R. I. + _Bry._ Bryson Library, Teachers College, New York. + _Conn._ Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Conn. + _Esx._ Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. + _Evans._ American Bibliography by Chas. Evans, 1903. + _Gen._ Library General Theological Seminary, New York. + _Har._ Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. + _Hild._ The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania by Chas. + R. Hildeburn, 1885. + _L.C._ Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. + _L.I._ Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, N. Y. + _Lown._ The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature + by William Thomas Lowndes, London, 1869. + _New._ Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill. + _Nich._ Bibliography of Worcester (Mass.) by Chas. L. + Nichols, 1899. + _N.L._ Free Public Library, Newark, N. J. + _N.L.I._ National Library of Ireland, Dublin. + _NR._ indicates that no record of a copy has been found + by the compiler. + _N.Y._ New York Public Library. + _N.Y.His._ New York Historical Society, New York City. + _N.Y.S._ New York State Library, Albany, N. Y. + _O.P._ Private collection. + _Penn. His._ Historical Society of Pennsylvania. + _P.L._ Peabody Library, Baltimore, Md. + _Peq._ Pequot Library, Southport, Conn. + _S._ Author’s collection. + _Trum._ List of Books printed in Connecticut, 1709–1800, + by James Hammond Trumbull, Acorn Club, Hartford, + 1904. + _U.T._ Union Theological Seminary, New York. + _Wat._ Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn. + _Yale._ Library of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. + + +[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE. + LORD, how delightful ’tis to see + A whole Assembly worship thee! + At once they sing, at once they pray; + They hear of Heav’n, and learn the Way.] + + + + + _The British Editions_ + + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in Easy Lan- | guage for the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts. | Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings +thou hast perfected | Praise. Matt. XXI: 16. | London: | Printed for +M. Lawrence at the Angel | in the Poultry. 1715. | pp. 72. 5⅞ × 3½; +Full leather. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, London, July 1902, for £155. +Now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Another copy was sold +at Sotheby’s, March 1907, for £55. + +Divine Songs, etc. 2nd edition. 1716. Only one copy known. + +Divine Songs, etc. 3rd edition. Printed by R. Ford at the Angel in +the Poultry. 1719. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, April 1911. Mor. ex. £1-7. +Third edition advertised at the back of The Psalms of David, etc., by +I. Watts. 3rd ed. London, John Clark and Rich. Ford. M.DCC.XXII. + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +London: R. Ford. 1720. 4th edition. Calf. 12^{o}. Copy offered by Maggs +Bros., London, 1909, £4-10. + +Divine Songs. Edited by I. Cobbin, London, 1720. 12^{o}. _Lown._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 5th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 6th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 7th edition. 1726 (?). Advertised in An Essay +Toward the Encouragement of Charity Schools, by I. Watts, London: +John Clark and Richard Hett. 1728. + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in easy language, for the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts. | [Illustration] | The Eighth Edition. | +London: Printed for Richard Ford, at the An- | gel in the Poultry, +near Stocks-Market, 1727. | pp. XX + 52, 5¾ × 3¼, full calf. _S._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 9th edition. London: 1728. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 10th edition. London: R. Ford, near Stocks-Market. +1729. Copy sold at Sotheran’s, April 1890, £1-2; at Christie’s, June +1898, Mor. ex. g. e., £1-8; at Sotheby’s, Feb. 1900, £1-16; offered +by Bull and Auvache, London, £2-12-6. + +Divine Songs, etc. 11th edition, 1731. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 12th edition. (?) London: R. Ford. 1733. 8^{o}. Copy +sold at Sotheby’s, June 1891. Mor. ex., £3-7-6. Copy sold in Hoe +Collection, N. Y., April 1911, Lev. mor. g. e., $15.00. + +Divine Songs, etc. 13th edition, 1735 (?). _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 14th edition, 1737 (?). _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 15th edition, 1739 (?). Fifteenth edition +advertised at the back of The Art of Reading and Writing English, 6th +ed. London, 1740, published by R. Hett and J. Brackstone at the Bible +and Crown in the Poultry. + +Divine Songs, etc. 16th edition, with some additional composures (a +Slight Specimen of Moral Songs). London: J. Brackstone, 1740. Small +12 mo. calf. Copy offered by Bull and Auvache, London, 1905. 15/-. + +Divine Songs, etc. 17th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 18th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 19th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 20th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. The twenty-first edition with some additional +composures, 1752. Copy sold at Hodgson’s, Feb. 1905, mor. ex. g. e., +8^{o}, £2-2. + +Works of Isaac Watts. Edited by D. Jennings and P. Doddridge. London: +1753. 6 vols. 4^{o}. Vol. 4 contains the Divine Songs, for the use of +Children. _B.A._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 22nd edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 23rd edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 24th edition. _NR._ + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | The Twenty-fifth +Edition. | London: | Printed for T. Longman, F. Buckland, | and W. +Fenner, in Paternoster-row; | J. Waugh, in Lombard-street; E. Dilly, +in the Poultry; and T. Field, in Cheap- | side. M.DCC.LXI. | pp. xii ++ 60, 5¾ × 3¼, full calf. George II license facing title. _S._ + +Divine Songs, etc. 26th edition. _NR._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | The Twenty-seventh +Edition. | London: | Printed for J. Longman; and J. Buck- | land, in +Pater-noster-row; J. Waugh, | in Lombard-Street; E. and C. Dilly, in +the | Poultry; and T. Field, in Cheapside. | M.DCC.LXV. | pp. x + 60, +5½ × 3⅛, full calf. _S._ + +I. Watts’ Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of +Children. London (176–), 18^{o}, Dutch boards. Quaint cuts. Offered by +Poynder, Reading, 1910, 15/-. + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | for the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | Printed +for H. Woodfall; J. Buckland; | J. and F. Rivington; T. Longman; | W. +Fenner; T. Field and | E. and C. Dilly. | M.DCC.LXIX. pp. xii + 58, +5⅝ × 3⅜. _S._ + +Caniadau Dwyfol (Divine Songs) Caerfyrddin, 1771. pp. 45, 12^{o}, in +Welsh. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. and F. Rivington, etc. 1772. pp. +60, 5¾ × 3¼, George II license facing title. _Bry._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration]| London: | Printed for +J. Buckland; J. and F. Rivington; | T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; +and | E. and C. Dilly. | MDCCLXXIII. | pp. xii + 58, 6 × 3½, boards. +_S._ + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +London: J. Buckland. 1774. pp. xii + 58, 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D. D. | London: J. Buckland; J. and F. +Rivington, etc. MDCCLXXV. George II license facing title. _B.M._, _N. +Y._ + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language For the Use of Children. +Salisbury, 1776. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language For the Use of Children. By +I. Watts, D.D. London: Printed in the year 1776. 12^{o}. No printer’s or +publisher’s name. Offered by Murray’s, Leicester, 1914, £2-10. + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | Printed for +J. Buckland; J.F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; +| and E. and C. Dilly. | MDCCLXXVII. | pp. xii + 60, 5⅜ × 3-3/16. +_B.M._, _S._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children | with Additions | by I. Watts, D.D. | London: | Printed, +and sold by all the Booksellers in | Town and Country. | MDCCLXXIX. | +pp. 58, 5½ × 3½, Dutch boards, half sheep. _S._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. |[Illustration] | London: | Printed +for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. Rivington; | T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. +Field; | and C. Dilly. | MDCCLXXX. | pp. xii + 58, 5¾ × 3⅛, boards. +George II license facing title. _B.M._, _S._ + +Spiritual Lessons for Children to read, etc. Chiefly selected from +the Divine Songs of Dr. Watts. 1780 (?). 32^{o}. _B.M._ + +Horæ Lyricæ | Poems | Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, | etc. By I. Watts. +Pages 323–370 contain the Divine Songs. 6 × 3¾. No publisher, place +or date. 1780 (?). _S._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D. D. |[Illustration] | London: | Printed +and sold by T. Moore, Pater-Noster Row | 1782. | pp. 60, 5 × 3⅜. + +The Poetical Works | of | Isaac Watts, D.D. | in seven volumes | +with the life of the Author. | Vol. VII | Edinburgh: | At the Apollo +Press, by the Martins | Anno 1782. | Pages 42–84 contain the Divine +Songs. 5 × 3. _Har._ + +Dr. Watts’s Hymns and Moral Songs for the use of Children. Revised +and Altered, etc. By a Lady. London: Printed by permission, etc. 1785 +(?). First edition, _NR._ See 2nd ed., 1787; 3rd ed., 1791. + +Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of Children. S. +Harward, Glocester, 1785. pp. xii + 58. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children, Coventry, 1787 (?), 12^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. |[Illustration]| London: J. Buckland; +J. F. | and C. Rivington; T. Longman; T. Field; | and C. Dilly. | +MDCCLXXXVII. | pp. xii + 60, 5⅞ × 3½. _S._ + +Dr. Watts’s | Hymns | and | Moral Songs | for the use of | Children, +| Revised and Altered. | To which are added, Prayers | for the use of +| Children. | By a Lady. | The Second Edition. | Train up a child in +the way, etc. | London: | Printed by permission of the Proprietors, | +for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s | Church-yard. MDCCLXXXVII. | pp. +xii + 70, 5⅝ × 3⅜. _S._ + +Divine Songs for Children, 1788. Comment on Watts’ Divine Songs by +Mrs. Trimmer. 1789. 12^{o}. Copy in old Eng. Mor. Gold tooled, G. E. +With portrait added, sold at Sotheby’s, May 1892, £4. + +Divine | Songs, | Attempted in | Easy Language, | for the use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Tamworth: | Printed +and sold by B. Shelton. | Price Six-Pence. MDCCLXXXIX. | pp. 64, 7½ × +3¼, marbled boards, half leather. _S._ + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +To which is added Poems, instructive and entertaining, etc. +Kidderminster: 1790 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs for children. Revised and altered +so as to render them of general use. To which are added a short +Catechism and Prayers. London. J. Johnson. No. 72, St. Paul’s +Church-yard. 1790 (?). 1st ed. _NR._ See 2nd ed. 1792 (?); 3rd ed. +1794; 4th ed. 1803. + +Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, | set to Music in an | Easy and Familiar +Stile | for one, two, three, & four voices, | by | Dr. Jackson, | +Opr. 1st | [Illustration] | London. Printed by Muzio, Clementi & Co. +| No. 26, Cheapside and Tottenham Court Road | where may be had | +“Ponder my Words,” an Anthem and three | canons for three Voices +composed for the use | of Country Churches. | 1790 (?). Engraved +title-page. _New._ + +Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, | set to Music in an | Easy and familiar +Stile | for one, two, three, & four voices | by Dr. Jackson | Opr. +1st | London: Printed for the Author, No. 40, | great Prescot Street +Goodmans Fields | where may be had | “Ponder my Words” an Anthem and +three | Canons for three Voices composed for the use | of Country +Churches. Price 2s. | 1790 (?). pp. iv + 44, 10¼ × 7, marbled paper +covers. Engraved throughout. _S._ + +Divine songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +Gainsborough: 1790 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of Children. +London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman; +T. Field; and C. 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Belfast: Printed by W. Magee. M,DCC,XCI. pp. vi + 41. Small +8^{o}. _Bos._ + +Dr. Watts’ Hymns and Moral Songs for the use of Children; Revised +and Altered by a Lady (E.Y.): to which are added Prayers.... Third +edition. London, 1791. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Derby: | John Drewry +| M,DCC,XCII. | Price Six-pence, bound. | pp. 72, 6¼ × 3¾, boards, +half leather. _Bod._, _S._ + +Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Revised and altered +so as to render them of general use. To which are added, etc. London: +J. Johnson 1792 (?). 2nd ed. _NR._ + +Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs for Children: Revised and Altered +so as to render them of general use. To which are added a short +Catechism and Prayers. Third Edition. 1794. London: Printed by +permission of the Proprietors. For J. Johnson. No. 72, St. Paul’s +Church-yard Sq. 18^{o} calf, with a fine series of wood-cuts. Offered by +Burman, Alnwick, Aug. 1914, £2.10. + +Poetical works of Isaac Watts, to which is prefixed the life of the +author (by R. Anderson) Edinburgh: 1794. 8^{o}; contains the Divine and +Moral Songs. _P.L._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | for the use of | +children | by I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | Printed +for J. Longman, C. Dilly, and F. and C. Rivington. MDCCXCVI. pp. xii ++ 60. Preliminary leaf bears notice of purchase of copyrights by +Buckland, Waugh, etc. Copy offered by Gorfin, London, Sept. 1914, 7/6. + +Watts’s Hymns for Children, complete with prayers. 1796 (?). Price +1½d, or 6/- per 100. Offered on the last leaf of The Shepherd of +Salisbury Plain. Marshall, London, January 1796. Cheap Repository and +S. Hazard, Bath. + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +London, 1799. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs.... To which are added the Principles of the Christian +Religion ... by Philip Doddridge, also a collection of instructive +and entertaining poems. Kidderminster. 1800 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs. Alnwick and Glasgow. 1800 (?). Woodcuts. Offered +by Tregaskis, London, July 1916. + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children | By I. Watts, D.D. | Adorned with Thirty-seven elegant Cuts +| To which is added | The Beggar’s Petition | and the | Universal +Prayer. | London, Gower & Pennell, Kidderminster. | 1800 (?). pp. 71, +5⅝ × 3¾, half leather. _S._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. Society for Promoting +Christian Knowledge. London. 1800. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the | Use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | To which are added, +| The Beggar’s Petition, Prayers, etc. | Wellington: | Printed +and sold by J. Bishop. | Sold also by all Booksellers in Town and +Country. | Price six pence. | 1800 (?). pp. 48, 6⅛ × 3⅞. Frontispiece +of church interior with verse beneath. Paper covers. Title in oval +wreath on front cover. _S._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. Coventry, 1800 (?). 12^{o}. +_B.M._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. Bath, 1800 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Gainsborough | +Printed by H. Mosley, Market Place. | Price six pence. | 1801 (?). +pp. 72, 5¼ × 2¾, Dutch boards, gilt. Frontispiece and numerous cuts +in text. Cuts signed “W.G.” (William Green?); that on page 23 signed +“W.G. Hull 1801.” _S._ + +Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of Children. +Mission Press: Serampore. 1801. pp. 88, 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs for Children by Isaac Watts. York: Edw. Peck. Lower +Ousegate. 1802 (?). Offered on the last leaf of The Magic Lantern, +York, Edw. Peck, Lower Ousegate. 1802. + +The | Poetical Works | of | Isaac Watts, D.D. | in seven volumes. +London: Apollo Press. George Cawthorn. No. 132, Strand. 1802. 5 × 3. +Vol. VII, pp. 42–84, contains the Divine Songs. _N.Y._ + +Divine Songs | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | London. | +Printed and Sold by Darton and Harvey, | Grace Church Street | 1802. +| Price six pence. | pp. 60, 4⅝ × 3¼, marbled paper. Eighteen half +page copperplate illustrations in the text. _N.Y._ + +Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs for Children.... To which are +added a short Catechism and Prayers. Fourth edition. London: J. +Johnson. 1803. pp. ix + 96, 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. York, 1804. Dutch boards. +Wood-cuts. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, Jan. 11, 1899. + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | for the use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | London: Printed for +F. & C. Rivington; J. Scatcherd; | Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; | +and G. Mowman; | By Bye and Low, St. John’s Square. Clerkenwell. | +1805. | pp. 75, 5½ × 3¼. Item No. 5 of Vol. XII of a set issued by +the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. _B.M._, _Gen._ + +Divine | Songs | Attempted | in Easy Language | For | The Use | of +| Children | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Ornamented with +cuts. | A new edition. | London: | Printed for Houlston and Son, | +65, Paternoster Row, and at Wellington, Salop. | Price six pence. | +1805 (?). pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3, boards. Frontispiece of the interior of +a church; cut at the head of each song. Front cover bears title in +decorative border. + +Watts’ Divine Songs, 1805 (?), 32^{o}, without cuts, price 2d; +advertised on rear cover of above item. + +Select Songs for Children.... By Isaac Watts, the Rev. Mr. Foxton and +other eminent divines. Dublin: J. 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Copperplate +frontispiece by Stothard, “Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.” +_N.Y._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. Vol. XII. 1807. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use of | +Children | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Printed for F. and +C. Rivington; J. Scatcherd | and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees +and | Orme; and J. Mowman; | By Law and Gilbert, St. John’s Square, +Clerkenwell. | 1808. | pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3¼. _S._ + +Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, in a small size and type. To which is +added, The Principles of the Christian Religion, Doddridge. 6d. 1808 +(?). Offered on back leaf of previous item. + +Songs Divine and Moral. A new edition revised by J. Owen. London, +1809. 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs for the Use of Children, etc. Richmond: T. +Bowman. 1810 (?). pp. 35. _B.M._ + +Select songs for Children. By I. Watts, D.D., the Rev. Mr. Foxton and +other eminent Divines. Dublin: John Gough. 11th ed. _N.R._ + +Select | Songs | for | Children | in three parts | .... | By I. +Watts, D.D., the Rev. Mr. Fox- | ton, and other eminent Divines. +| .... | The Twelfth Edition | Corrected and Enlarged. | Dublin: +Printed by John Gough, No. 20, Meath-Street. | 1810 | Price 8d, half +bound. | pp. 108, 5⅛ × 3¼. Half sheep. _S._ + +Watts’s Divine Songs. Published May 24, 1810, by R. Harrild, 20, +Great Eastcheap. Broadside 19 × 15 (School piece), eight copperplate +illustrations, carefully hand-colored. _S._ + +Divine Songs. London, 1810. Post 8^{o}. Copy sold in Daly sale, Amer. +Art Galleries, March 1900, $5.50. Mor. g. e., portrait by Bartolozzi +inserted. + +Divine Songs, attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +Adorned with appropriate wood-cuts by T. Bewick. York: Thomas Wilson +and Son, 1810. pp. 64. 5 × 2½. _Bry._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. York: R. Burdikin. 12^{o}, illustrated. 1810 +(?). Offered by Tregaskis, London, Aug. 1912. + +Watts’ Divine Songs for Children. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. +Tweeddale Court. With neat embellishments. 6^{d}. 1810 (?). pp. 36, 5½ × +3½. Offered at back of “A Budget of Juvenile Stories for Children.” +Edinburgh. Oliver and Boyd. + +Divine | and | Moral Songs | In Easy & Pleasing Language | For the +Instruction of Children | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | Illustrated with +forty fine cuts | London: Edward Lacey, 76, St. Paul’s Churchyard. | +And all booksellers. | 1810 (?). pp. 70, 5¼ × 3¼, boards. _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for the use of Children. London: W. Darton, +1812. pp. 70, 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs attempted in easy Language for the use of children. +London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; J. Scatcherd and +Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; and J. Mowman. 1812. +_Yale._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language, with appropriate wood-cuts +by T. Bewick of New Castle. York: T. Wilson. 1812. 12^{o}. Copy sold at +Sotheby’s, February 1906, £2-2. _Bod._ + +Dr. Watts’s | Hymns for Children, | Revised and Altered, | so as +to render them of general use: | To which are now added | Hymns | +And other religious poetry | For Children, | By Dr. Doddridge, &c. +| A new edition. | Exeter: | Printed and Sold by T. Besley, | Sold +also by J. Johnson and Co., London; | P. Hedgeland, Exeter; Rees and +Curtis, Plymouth; and J. Belcher, | Birmingham. | 1812. | pp. 52, 6⅜ +× 3⅞. _S._ + +Works of Isaac Watts. London: 1812–13. 9 vols. 8^{o}. Vol. 9 contains +the Divine Songs for Children. _B.H._ + +Dr. Watts’s | Divine Songs, | For | Children. | Banbury: | Printed +and Sold by J. G. Rusher, | Bridge-Street. | Price One penny. | +1814 (?). pp. 16, numbered 2–18. 3½ × 2¾. Blue paper wrappers. +Frontispiece on inside front cover. Cuts on outside front and back +covers. Copy (with another Vol., Moral Songs) sold at Bangs, N. Y., +May 1900, $4.50. _B.M._, _Bos._, _Bod._, _S._ + +Dr. Watts’s | Moral Songs, | For | Children. | Banbury: | Printed and +sold by J. Rusher, | Bridge-Street. | Price One Penny. | 1814 (?). +pp. 16, numbered 2–18. 3½ × 2¾. Gray paper wrappers. Frontispiece on +inside front cover. Cuts on outside front and back covers. _S._ See +note on previous item. + +Divine Songs in easy language, etc. Glasgow: J. Lumsden and Son. +1814. pp. 30, 32^{o}. _B.M._, _Bod._ + +An analysis of Dr. Watts’s Hymns for Children, upon the interrogative +or catechetical plan. For the use of schools. Liverpool: Published by +H. Greenough. 1814. _Yale._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. With the Beggar’s Petition. +London. Ilminster. 1814 (?). 24^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs in Easy Language for the Use of Children. By I. Watts. +Edinburgh: G. Ross. 1814 (?). Offered by Burman, Alnwick, Sept. 1912. + +Divine Songs attempted in easy language for Children. Wellington: +Houlston, 1815 (?), cuts. Offered by Burman, Alnwick, July 1912, 2/-. + +Caniadau Duwiol (Divine Songs) Crefyddol: 1815 (?). In Welsh. 12^{o}. +_B.M._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the +Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Beverley: +Printed by M. Turner, | For Messrs. Crosby and Co., London; | G. +Turner, Hull; and M. Turner, Beverley. | 1815. | pp. 54, 5⅜ × 3½, +half sheep, frontispiece and cuts in text. _S._ + +Divine | and | Moral Songs, | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. +| Stereotype edition. | London: | Printed for E. Cox and Son, | St. +Thomas’s Street, Borough. | 1815. | pp. 64, 4 × 2½, full sheep. _S._ + +Divine Songs, etc. London: 1816. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Derby: R. Miller. 1816. 8^{o}. Engraving above +each song. Offered by Burman, Alnwick, July 1912. + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington. 1818. _Yale._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | Attempted | in Easy Language | For The +| Use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | London: | Printed and +sold by J. Innes, 61, Wells St. | Oxford Street; | and may be had +at all booksellers. | Price Sixpence. | 1820 (?). pp. 36, 5½ × 3½, +frontispiece; stiff paper covers. _O.P._ + +Divine Songs for Children, Reading: J. Rusher. 1820 (?). pp. 48, 16^{o}. +_B.M._ + +Divine Songs in easy language, for Children. London: J. Evans. 1820 +(?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Watts’s Divine Songs. Glasgow. 1820 (?). 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs, Attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. London: J. Catnach. 1820 (?). pp. 12, 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs.... With engravings. Devizes: J. Harrison. +1820 (?). pp. 48, 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. Devizes. 1820 (?). 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +A | Specimen | of | Moral Songs | Adapted to | The Capacities of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | Chelmsford: | Printed and sold by I. +Marsden. | Price one Penny. | 1820 (?). pp. 16, 4⅜ × 2⅝, gray paper +covers. _S._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For the | Use of Children. | By I. Watts, +D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | William Darton, 58, Holborn-Hill. +| Opposite Ely Place. | 1821. | Price six pence. | pp. 72, 5⅝ × 3¼; +frontispiece and numerous large cuts in text, including a hanging to +illustrate moral song No. 3, “The Thief.” _S._ + +Divine & Moral | Songs, | in easy language. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. +| A New Edition, | Embellished with beautiful engravings, | from +new designs. | London: | Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Jay, | +Paternoster Row. | 1821. | Price six-pence. | pp. 72, 4⅝ × 3, paper +covers. Frontispiece and cut on title; also 36 cuts in text. + +Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of Children. +London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington. 1821. _Yale._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. London. 1822 (?). 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral Songs in Easy Language for the Use of Children. R. +Franly. 1823. 12^{o}, paper covers. Folding colored frontispiece in six +sections. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, Feb. 1911, £2-5. + +Divine Songs, | Attempted in | Easy Language, | By I. Watts, D.D. | +[Illustration] | London: Sold by C. S. Arnold, | Tavistock-Street, +Covent Garden. | 1825. | Price six pence. | pp. 72, 5½ × 3⅜, +frontispiece and cuts in text, stiff paper covers, border and cut on +cover. _Bod._, _S._ + +Divine Songs for children. Adorned with 38 elegant cuts, to which is +added the Beggar’s Petition and Universal Prayer. London, 1825. Small +pott 8^{o} half leather. Copy offered by Gorfin, London, Oct. 1914. + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. Epping, 1825 (?). 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine | and | Moral Songs | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. +| with | Brief notes appended to each hymn, | by | A minister of the +gospel. | Birmingham: | Printed for Thomas Groom, | Islington Row. +| 1825 (?). pp. 54, 5⅝ × 3⅝, stiff paper covers. Title on cover in +mortised cut, apparently by Bewick. _Yale_, _S._ + +Songs, | Divine and Moral | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | To which is added +| A memoir of the Author. | Embellished with sixty engravings on wood +| [Illustration] | London: | Published by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, +Stationers’ Hall Court, Ludgate Street; | J. Johnson, Brook Street, +Holborn; and sold by all booksellers. | 1826. | pp. iv + vi + vi + +88, 7½ × 3¾, boards. Frontispiece portrait and cut at head of each +song. _B.M._, _S._ + +Canan Duwiol (Divine Songs) Llundain: 1826. In Welsh. 24^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs, | Attempted in Easy Language, | for the | +Use of Children: | By I. Watts, D.D. | Derby: | Printed for and by | +Thomas Richardson, Friar-Gate; | and for | Hurst, Chance and Co., | +65 St. Paul’s Church-yard, London. | 1827. | pp. 70, 5½ × 3½, picture +boards. Frontispiece and small wood-cuts in text. _S._ + +Divine Songs | Attempted In | Easy Language | For the use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | Adorned with thirty-eight elegant +cuts. | To which is added, | The Beggar’s Petition, and the Universal +Prayer. | London: | Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside. | 1828. | pp. 72, 5¼ +× 3½, boards, half leather; frontispiece and numerous cuts in text. +_S._ + +An Explanation of Dr. Watt’s Hymns for Children, in question and +answer. By a Lady. (Mrs. Cockle, with the text). London: First +edition. _NR._ See 3rd ed. 1829; 4th ed. 1836. + +An Explanation of Dr. Watt’s Hymns for Children, in question, etc. +Second edition. _NR._ + +An Explanation of Dr. Watt’s Hymns for Children, in question and +answer. By a Lady. (Mrs. Cockle, with the text). Third edition: +London. 1829. 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Derby, 1830 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Watts’s | Divine Songs, | attempted in | Easy Language | For the +Use of Children. | John and Charles Mozley. | Derby: | Price One +Penny. | 1830 (?). pp. 32, 4⅛ × 2⅝, paper covers, cut on front cover, +frontispiece, and vignette on title. _S._ + +Watts’s | Divine Songs, | attempted in | Easy Language | For the Use +of Children. | London: John and Charles Mozley, | 6, Paternoster Row. +| Price One penny. | 1830 (?). pp. 32, 4⅛ × 2⅝, paper covers, cut on +front cover, small frontispiece, and vignette on title. _S._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs. Offered on back of “The English Primer” +published by John and Charles Mozley, Derby and Paternoster Row, +London. 1830 (?); price 1^{d} [see item above], 2^{d} and 6^{d} each. + +Divine and Moral Songs in Easy Language. Religious Tract Society, +London: 1830 (?). The First Series, Tracts etc. No. 5, 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. London: 1830. 18^{o}. 2/0. _Lown._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1830 (?). Printed from +copper plates. _Bod._ + +Divine Songs, | In | Easy Language | For | Children. | By I. Watts, +D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | Printed and Sold by | J. Evans, | +42, Long Lane, West Smithfield. | Price six-pence. | 1830 (?). pp. +68, 5¼ × 3½, picture boards. Frontispiece and crude cuts in text. +Vignette on title by Bewick. _S._ + +Songs, Divine and Moral, For the Use of Children, by Isaac Watts. +1832. 12^{o}, boards. Illustrated by Stothard. Lowndes says “London: +Tilt, fcp. 8^{o} 1832.” Copy offered by Hollings, London, 1910, 2/-. + +Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs, improved. With an appendix, etc. +Newcastle. 1832. 12^{o}. _B.M._, _Bod._ See 2nd ed. 1834; 3rd ed. 1839. + +Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs improved ... with an appendix. By +John Scott. The second edition, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1834. 12^{o}. +_B.M._, _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs For Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +London: | Religious Tract Society; | Instituted 1799; | Sold at the +Depository, 56, Paternoster Row; and | By the booksellers. | 1834. +| pp. 72, 5½ × 3½, half leather. Vignette on title and numerous +excellent wood-cuts in text. _S._ + +Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. Illustrated by Anecdotes and +Reflections by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin. London: Dean and Son. 1st +edition. _NR._ See 1835 (?). + +Dr. Watts’s | Divine and Moral Songs, | for | Children. | Illustrated +by Anecdotes and Reflections by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, M.A. | +Embellished with beautiful wood-cuts. | New edition, | London: | +Dean and Son, Ludgate Hill. E.C. | 1835 (?). pp. 136, 5½ × 3½, green +cloth. _Bos._, _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Llundain. 1836. 24^{o}. In Welsh. _B.M._ + +An Explanation of Dr. Watts’ Hymns for Children, in question and +answer. By a Lady. (Mrs. Cockle, with the text). Fourth edition. +London: 1836. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. London: Religious Tract Society. +1837, small 8^{o}, illustrated, half calf. Offered by Gorfin, London, +Oct. 1914. + +Divine Songs for Children. Edited by J. G. Pike. London: Thomas +Richardson and Son, 26, Paternoster Row. 1837 (?). Offered on back of +Mavor’s Improved Spelling Book. London: Thomas Richardson and Son, +26, Paternoster Row, @ 6^{d}, 3^{d}, 2^{d}, and 1^{d} each. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. In “Hymns, Original and +Selected, by John Radcliffe, 1838.” 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs.... Improved; with a large +appendix, by J. Scott. Now an almost entirely new work. Third +edition, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1839. 12^{o}. _Lown._, _B.M._, _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. London: Houlson, 1839. Fcp 8^{o}, plates, 2/6. +_Lown._ + +Divine and Moral Songs, new edition. To which are added prayers, etc. +London: 1840 (?). 16^{o}. Frontispiece and numerous wood-cuts. _B.M._, +_S._ + +Divine Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the Use of Children. +| By Isaac Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | New edition. | London: | +Printed for the | Society for promoting Christian Knowledge; | Sold +at the Depository, | Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; | and +by all booksellers. | [55] 1840. | pp. 68, 5⅜ × 3½, half leather, +picture boards. Society’s seal on title page. 8 wood-cuts in text. +_S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. London: The Religious Tract +Society. 1841. Illustrated. _Yale._ + +March’s | Library | of Instruction and Amusement. | Watts’ | Divine +and Moral | Songs | -9- | Price six-pence | Printed and Published by +J. March | 5, Great Charlotte Street, Blackfriars’ Road. | 1844 (?). +pp. 16, 9½ × 6, printed on one side of leaves only. Title on outside +front cover; 21 carefully colored wood-cuts. _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Set to music by Mrs. Brent. London; 1846 (?). +Royal 8^{o}. 1st ed. (?). _Bod._ (See 1848.) + +Divine Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the Use of Children. +| By Isaac Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | Printed for | The +Society for promoting Christian Knowledge | Sold at the Depository, | +Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn-Fields, and 4 Royal Exchange; | and +by all booksellers. | [55] 1847. | pp. 72, 5½ × 3½, red silk boards. +Seal of Society on title page. Many excellent wood-cuts; some signed +“Whimper.” _S._ + +Dr. Watts’ | Divine & Moral Songs, | Set to Music, | And adapted +expressly for the use | of children. | By | Mrs. Brent. | London. +| Sold by Houlston & Stoneman. | Paternoster Row; | & other +Booksellers. | 1848. | Ent. Sta. Hall. | pp. 80, 10¼ × 7. From +engraved plates throughout. _Bod._, _Lown._, _S._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children. | By | Isaac +Watts, D.D. | With thirty illustrations | Drawn on the wood by C. +W. 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London: 1849, 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children | By | Isaac +Watts, D.D. | with thirty illustrations | Drawn on the wood by C. W. +Cope, A.R.A., | and | Engraved by John Thompson. | London: | John Van +Voorst, Paternoster Row. | M.DCCCL. | pp. 94 + 8 of adv., cloth, 8⅛ × +5½. + +Divine Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the Use of Children. +| By Isaac Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | London: | Society for +Promoting Christian Knowledge; | Sold at the Depositories; | 77, +Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; | 4, Royal Exchange; 16, +Hanover Street, Hanover Square; | And by All Booksellers. | 1850 (?). +No. 55. | pp. 72, 5½ × 3½. Frontispiece and numerous wood-cuts. _S._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1852. 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral Songs | for | Children. | by the | Rev. Isaac Watts, +D.D. | Illustrated by anecdotes and reflections, | by the | Rev. +Ingram Cobbin, M.A. | Embellished with beautiful wood-cuts. | London: +| Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., | 25, Paternoster Row, | and all +booksellers. | 1852. | pp. 136 + 18 of adv., 5½ × 3½, cloth with gold +lettering. See 1835. _S._ + +New and revised edition of Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs ... by +J. G. C. Fussell. London: 1852. 18^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs. London: 1854(?). 32^{o}. _B.M._ + +Twenty-eight Divine Songs for the use of Children. Dublin: 1855 (?). +48^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Low, London: 1855. 12^{o}, printed on cloth. +_Lown._ + +Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. Edinburgh: 1855 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. London: Birmingham: 1855 (?). 32^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. London: 1856. 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Warde and Locke. London: 1857. 12^{o}. _B.M._, +_Lown._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1857. 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Edinburgh and New York. 1857. 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs. | For | Children | By the | Rev^{d} Isaac +Watts, D.D. | London. | George Routledge & Co., Farrington St. | 1860 +(?). Designed title with vignette of Dr. Watts. Frontispiece and +numerous wood engravings in text, all by Dalziel. pp. 96, 6⅜ × 3¾. +_N.Y._, _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Same as above except printed throughout on +cloth. _S._ + +Divine Songs. London: 1860 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Moral Songs and Hymns. Illustrated by ten beautiful coloured +engravings. (On cards). 1861 (?). 12^{o}. _B.M._ + +Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. F. Goodchilds’ Little Library. +1861 (?). 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Religious Tract Society. London: 1861. 12^{o}, +colored plates. _Lown._ + +Divine and Moral Songs.... The music composed and adapted for +Children’s voices. By E. Thorne. London: 1864. 8^{o}. _B.M._, _Bod._ See +1870 (?). + +Divine and Moral | Songs for Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +London: Religious Tract Society; | Instituted 1799 | Sold at the +depository, 56, Paternoster Row, and 65, St. Paul’s Church-yard; | +and by the Booksellers. | 1865 (?). pp. 72, 5½ × 3⅜, half leather. +Illustrated with excellent wood engravings, some of the tailpieces +after Bewick. _U.T._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For | Children | By Isaac Watts, D. D. | +London: | Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. | 1866. | pp. 116, 7¾ × 5½. +Numerous wood engravings in the text by various artists. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For | Children, | By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | +Illustrated | London: | George Routledge & Sons. | 1866 (?). pp. 116, +7¾ × 5⅝, designed title page; frontispiece wood-engraved portrait of +Dr. Watts by Scott. Wood-cut illustrations and decorations on each +page by Scott, Kennedy, Allen, etc. Probably from same plates as item +above. _Bod._, _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. Leiden. 1866 (?). 12^{o}. In Dutch. _B.M._ + +Divine | and | Moral Songs | For | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +Illustrated in the | New Graphotype Engraving Process. | by W. Holman +Hunt, | W. Cave Thomas, J. D. Watson, G. Du Maurier, T. Morten, C. +Green, | H. K. Brown, Marcus Stone, H. Anelay, Florence Claxton, | M. +E. Edwards, etc. etc. | Under the superintendence of | H. Fitzcook. +| London: | James Nisbet and Co., | Berners Street. | 1867 (?). pp. +viii + 76, 10¾ × 8½, cloth, g. e. Frontispiece portrait. _B.M._, +_Bod._, _S._ The largest size found. + +Divine Songs, | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For the Use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Published by John and +Charles Mozley, Derby; | and Paternoster Row, London. | 1867 | pp. +72, 5½ × 3½, picture boards, half leather. Frontispiece, vignette on +title and cut at head of each song. _S._ + +Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. (With coloured engravings). London, +Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons (Printed 1867). 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine & Moral | Songs for Children. | By Dr. Watts. | London: | +S. W. Partridge and Co., 9 Paternoster Row | 1867 (?). pp. 80, 5½ +× 4¼, cloth. Decorated page borders and profusely illustrated with +excellent wood engravings, signed “W. Cheshire”. _B.M._, _U.T._ + +Divine and Moral Songs (With illustrations). London: Religious Tract +Society. 1869 (?). 8^{o}. _B.M._, _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral Songs.... The music composed by E. Thorne. London: +1870 (?). 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Hymnyn ny Arraneyn Mayllee, son Paitchyn. Liorish I. Watts. Peel: W. +K. Palmer, printer. Michael Street. pp. 30, 12^{o}. 1870 (?). In Manx. + +Beeton’s Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. 1872 (?). Beeton’s Penny +Books. 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs.... Original and altered from Watts. By W. A. Pope. +1873. 8^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. London and Liverpool. 1873. 12^{o}. + +Divine and Moral Songs. Utrecht: 1874 (?). 8^{o}. In Dutch. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. London: Religious Tract Society. 1875 (?). +16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs.... Illustrated. London. 1875 (?). 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. (Edited by H. F.) London: (Chilworth +printed) 1877 (?). 16^{o}. _B.M._, _Bod._ + +Bible Voices for the Young. Consisting of Watts’ Divine and Moral +Songs; Scripture Characters; First, Second and Third Catechisms, etc. +2 pt. London: Systematic Bible Teachers Depository. 1879 (?). 18^{o}. +_B.M._ + +Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs. Illustrated. London: 1879 (?). 8^{o}. +_B.M._ + +Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1880 +(?). cloth, g.e., coloured frontispiece and 50 illustrations. + +Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs. London: Religious Tract Society. 1880 +(?). pp. 48, 24^{o}. _B.M._ + +Songs, Divine and Moral.... Improved edition with engravings. +Glasgow: G. Cameron. 1883 (?). pp. 64, 16^{o}. _B.M._ + +Thirty-one Divine Songs for the use of Children. Glasgow: Marr and +Sons. 1883 (?). pp. 31, 32^{o}. _B.M._ + +Divine and Moral Songs.... With illustrations, etc. London: Religious +Tract Society, pp. 95, 8^{o}. _B.M._, _Bod._ + +Divine and Moral Songs.... With coloured pictures by Mrs. A. Gaskin. +London: Elkin Mathews. 1896 (?). pp. 60, 8^{o}. _B.M._ See 1901 (?). + +Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1897. 8^{o}. _Bod._ + +Divine: and: Moral | Songs: For Children. | By the: Reverend | Isaac: +Watts: D.D. | Elkin Mathews | Vigo St London | 1900 (?). pp. 62, 5¾ +× 4½. Thirteen full-page pictures in color by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin: +glazed picture boards, half cloth. + +Divine: and: Moral | Songs: For Children | By the: Reverend | Isaac: +Watts: D.D. | Elkin Mathews | Vigo St London | 1901 (?). pp. 92, 7¾ × +5½, cloth, with full-page color plates by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE. + + Happy the Child whose tender years + Receive Instructions well: + Who hates the Sinner’s path, and fears + The road that leads to Hell.] + +[Illustration] + + + + + _The American Editions_ + + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. By +I. Watts. 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Coverly. | +Price 12 cents | Great allowance made by | the Grose or Dozen. | 1790 +(?). pp. 36, 5¾ × 3¼. _B.M._, _S._, _B._, _Wat._ + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. By Isaac Watts, D.D., +Author of the Lyric Poems. Middletown: Printed by Moses H. Woodware. +M,DCC,XC. pp. 32, 3⅝ × 2⅜. Cut on reverse of title. _Conn._ + +Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. Boston: Printed and +Sold by Samuel Hall. M,DCC,XCII. pp. 71, 32^{o}, one illustration. _B.P._ + +Divine Songs | attempted in | easy language | for the use of | +Children | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | Hartford: | Printed by Elisha +Babcock | 1794. | pp. 31, 4⅛ × 2½, frontispiece, marbled paper covers. + +Divine and Moral Songs, attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. Boston: Samuel Hall. 1796. 48^{o}, illustrated, wrappers +stitched. _Bos._ + + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 1st edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 2nd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 3rd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 4th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 5th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 6th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 7th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 8th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 9th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 10th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 11th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 12th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 13th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 14th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 15th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 16th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 17th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 18th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 19th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 20th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 21st edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 22nd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 23rd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 24th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 25th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 26th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 27th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 28th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 29th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 30th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 31st edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 32nd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 33rd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 34th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 35th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 36th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 37th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 38th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 39th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 40th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 41st edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 42nd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 43rd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 44th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 45th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 46th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 47th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 48th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 49th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 50th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 51st edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 52nd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 53rd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 54th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 55th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 56th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 57th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 58th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 59th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 60th edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 61st edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 62nd edition. _NR._ + Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 63rd edition. _NR._ + +Divine | Songs | attempted | in | Easy Language, | for the use of | +Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | (The sixty-fourth +Edition.) Haverhill: | Printed and sold by N. Coverly. | 1797. | +Price Nine pence. | pp. 34, 16^{o}. _Bos._, _Esx._ + +Divine and Moral Songs attempted in easy Language, for the use of +Children. Revised and corrected. By Isaac Watts, D.D. Printed and +sold by Samuel Hall, No. 53 Cornhill. Boston: 1799. pp. 70, 4 × 3⅜, +pictorial paper covers. Wood-cut frontispiece and wood-cuts in the +text. _Bos._ + +Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of Children. +Salem. 1800. pp. 48, 24^{o}. _Esx._ + +A | Choice Collection | of | Hymns, | and | Moral Songs; | Adapted +to the Capacities of Young | People, | on the several Duties and | +Incidents of Life. | Adorned with Cuts, to impress more lasting | +Ideas of each Subject upon the Mind, than | can be attained by those +in common use. | To which is added, | Specimens | of | Divine Poetry. +| By several Authors. | Hartford: | Printed by John Babcock. | 1801 | +pp. 112, 5¼ × 2¾, paper covered oak boards. Contains about half the +Divine Songs and all but one of the Moral Songs. _S._ + +Divine Songs. | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | To which are added, +| The Principles | of the | Christian Religion, | In plain and easy +Verse. | By P. Doddridge, D.D. | New York: Printed for John Tiebout, +| No. 246 Water Street, | By L. Nichols. | 1802. | pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3½, +boards, half leather, eleven oval wood cuts. + +Divine and Moral Songs, in easy language for the use of Children. By +Isaac Watts. Charlestown: 1802. 32^{o}, stitched. Copy sold at Libbie’s, +Boston Oct. 22–24, 1907. See 1804. + +Divine and Moral | Songs, | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. +| Cambridge | Printed at the University press | By W. Hillard. | +MDCCCIII. | Num. Edit. 4000 | pp. 36, 6 × 3⅜, figured paper covers. +Arms of Phillips Academy on title. _A.A._, _Bos._, _Peq._, _N.Y._, +_S._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs, | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +The second Cambridge edition. | Printed by W. Hillard. | 1804. | pp. +36, 6 × 4, figured paper covers. _Bos._, _S._ + +Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +Providence: Heaton and Williams. 1804. _A.A._ + +Divine and Moral Songs; attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. Revised and Corrected. Boston: Hosea Sprague. No. 88 +Newberry St. 1804. pp. 63, 4⅛ × 2¾, illustrated. _B._ + +Poetical Works of Isaac Watts. With life of the Author. Philadelphia: +B. Johnson. 1804. 2 Vols. 16^{o}. 2nd Vol. contains Divine Songs for +children, Moral Songs, A Cradle Hymn. _Bos._ + +Divine and Moral Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +children (also) Catechisms for Children and Youth, Prayers, etc. By +Isaac Watts. Revised and Corrected. New Haven, Conn. 1804. _Har._ + +Divine | and | Moral Songs, | Attempted in Easy Language, | for +| the Use of Children: | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | +Charlestown: | Printed by Samuel Etheridge. | Sold by him | at the +Washington Head Bookstore. | 1804. | _N.Y.S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Hudson: Stoddard. 1805. _Bos._ + +Martin and James; or, the | Reward of Integrity: | A Moral Tale, | +Designed for the Improvement of youth. | New York: | Printed and sold +by John C. Totten, | No. 155 Chatham-Street, | where may be had a +variety of Children’s Books. | 1807. | pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3⅜, marbled paper +covers, wood-cuts. Pages 56–72 contain 16 of the Divine Songs. _S._ + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | for the | Use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | London printed | Hartford, | +Reprinted by Hudson and Goodwin. | 1807. | pp. 120, 4½ × 3, half +leather. _A.A._, _B._ + +Divine Songs (The shorter Catechism agreed upon by the Assembly of +Divines, etc.) London printed. Hartford reprinted. 1807. 24^{o}. _B.M._ + +Watts’ | Divine Songs | For the use of | Children | with plates. | G. +Love, sc. | Philadelphia: | Published by J. Johnson. | 1807. | pp. +52, 5⅜ × 3, stiff paper covers. Engraved title page with vignette of +cupids. Engraved frontispiece and 12 crude engravings. _N.Y.His._, +_S._ + +Divine Songs | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +[Illustration] | Philadelphia: | Published by Benjamin Johnson | No. +249, Market Street | 1807. | pp. 48, 16^{o}. Cut on title, The Good +Samaritan, and 17 small cuts in text by Anderson. _Bos._, _Penn.His._ + +Divine and Moral Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. Boston: Lincoln & Edmonds. 1808. pp. 47. _Bos._ + +Divine Songs; | For Children. | Attempted in Easy Language. | By I. +Watts, D. D. | Ornamented with Cuts. | [Illustration] | From Sidney’s +Press, | New Haven. | 1809. | pp. 36, 5⅜ × 3⅜, paper covers. Cut on +front cover and on back cover. Frontispiece and 10 cuts in text. +Front cover bears, Published by I. Cooke & Co. New Haven. _N.Y.His._, +_A.A._, _S._ + +Divine Songs attempted in easy Language for the use of Children. +Newburyport. 1809 (?). pp. 37, 24^{o}, illustrated. _Esx._ + +Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For the Use of | +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | [Illustration] | Utica: | Printed and +sold by Seward and Williams. | 1810. | pp. 36, 5 × 3, oak boards, +paper covered, half leather. Vignette on title, wood-cut head and +tail pieces in text. Includes Dodridge’s Principles of the Christian +Religion. _N.Y.His._, _A.A._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +Newburyport: Gilman. 1810. pp. 48, 24^{o}, plates. _Bos._, _Esx._ See +1811 (?). + +Songs, Divine and Moral by I. W. 6½¢. New York: S. Wood. 357 Pearl +St. 1811. Offered on leaf of adv. at back of The Seven Wonders of the +World. Wood, 1811. _N.Y._, _S._ + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +Walpole (N.H.): Isaiah Thomas & Co. 1811. 3½ × 3⅛. _A.A._ + +Divine Songs. Newburyport: W. and J. Gilman. pp. 26. 1811 (?). _Bry._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs. Portland, Me.: A. Lyman & Co. 1812. 12¢. Offered +on back of Arithmetical Tables. Portland: Lyman. 1812. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Newburyport. 1813. _Har._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Andover, Mass.: New England +Tract Society, No. 32. 1814. _A.A._, _B.A._ + +Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms for Children: Together with a +collection of Hymns and Prayers. Middletown (Conn.): Printed and +Published by Clark & Lyman. 1st ed. _NR._ See 4th ed. 1818; 5th ed. +1819. + +Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms, etc. Middletown. 2nd ed. _NR._ + +Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms, etc. Middletown. 3rd ed. _NR._ + +Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms, etc. Middletown. 1818 (?). 4th +ed. pp. 36, 5⅜ × 3⅛. Pages 20–32 contain 12 divine and 2 moral songs. + +A | Plain and Easy | Catechism | For Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. +| To which are added, | Divine Songs, By the Same Author. | Boston: +| Printed by Parmenter and Norton | 1818. | pp. 16, 4½ × 2⅝, paper +covers. Pages 12–16 contain four of the songs. + +Watts’ Divine Songs for the Use of Children. New Haven: Sidney’s +Press. 1818. 48^{o}, paper covers. Copy sold at Libbie’s, Boston, March +12, 13, 1913. + +Dr. Watts’ | Plain and Easy | Catechisms | For | Children: | Together +with a Collection of | Hymns and Prayers | Fifth Middletown Edition | +Middletown (Conn.): | Printed and Published by Clark & Lyman. | 1819. +| pp. 36, 5½ × 3½, paper covers. Pages 21–31 contain 12 divine and 2 +moral songs. _S._ + +Divine Songs for Children. By Isaac Watts, D.D. To which is added +Catechisms and Prayers for Sunday Schools. New Haven: A. H. Maltby & +Co. 1819. pp. 36, 5½ × 3½, stiff paper covers. _A.A._ + +Songs, Divine and Moral, for Children. Albany: G. J. Loomis and Co. +1819. 24^{o}, paper. Copy sold at Libbie’s, Dec. 6, 7, 1906. + +Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children. +Boston: S. T. Armstrong. 1819. pp. 36, 24^{o}. Frontispiece and cuts in +text. _A.A._, _Har._ + +Watts’ | Divine Songs | For the use of Children. | Sidney’s Press | +For John Babcock and Son, New Haven, | S. and W. R. Babcock, 163 King +St., | Charleston, and M‘Carty and Davis, Philadelphia. | 1820. | pp. +31, 5¾ × 3½. Wood-cut frontispiece and cuts in text, by Anderson. +_B._, _Peq._ See 1824, 1830, 1831, 1838, 1840, 1842. + + Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 1st ed. _NR._ + Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 2nd ed. _NR._ + Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 3rd ed. _NR._ + Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 4th ed. _NR._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Andover: Flagg and Gould. 5th +edition. 1820. (New England Tract Society. Pub. No. 32). pp. 20, 16^{o}. +_Bos._ + +Watts’ Hymns, Ornamented with 38 handsome engravings, 25 cts. +Hartford: George Goodwin and Sons. 1820. Offered under Books for +Children on back of New England Primer. Geo. Goodwin and Sons, +Hartford. 1820. See 1822. + +Dr. Watts’ Divine Songs, | for | Children. | Hartford: | Printed and +Sold by G. Goodwin & Sons. | 1822. | pp. 22, paper covers, 5⅛ × 2¾. +Front cover is the title page. Vignette on title and 6 wood-cuts in +text. + +Songs, Divine and Moral, for the use of Children. Geneva, N. Y.: +James Bogert. 1823. pp. 24, 5⅛ × 2¾. _Bry._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs. New Haven: J. Babcock and Son. 1824. pp. 31, +illustrated. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. New York: American Tract +Society. 1825. 12^{o}. _Bos._ + +Songs, | Divine and Moral, | By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | Embellished +with numerous engravings | [Illustration] | Revised by the Committee +of Publication of the | American Sunday-School Union. | Philadelphia: +| American Sunday-School Union. | No. 316 Chestnut Street. | First +edition, 1826. pp. 90, 6 × 3¾, cloth. Frontispiece and numerous +wood-cuts in text. + +Divine and Moral | Songs | for | Children. | By the Rev. Isaac Watts, +D.D. | [Illustration] | Published by the | American Tract Society, | +150 Nassau St., New York. | 1830 (?). pp. 48, 4⅛ × 2⅝, paper covers, +frontispiece, cut on title and three cuts in text. _N.Y._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs for the use of Children. With handsome +engravings. New Haven: S. Babcock; Charleston: S. Babcock & Co. 1830. +pp. 23, 5½ × 3¼, illustrated, yellow paper covers. _B._ + +Divine Songs. | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the | Use of +Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | New York: Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl St. +| 1830 (?). 3¾ × 3, cloth. Frontispiece and numerous cuts in text. +_N.Y._ See 1832. + +Hymns for Children: By Doctor Watts. New Haven: S. Babcock. 1831. pp. +16, 3½ × 2, illustrated, yellow paper covers. _B._ + +Watts’ | Divine and Moral | Songs. | For the use of Children | +[Illustration] | New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, | At the +New Juvenile Book-Store, | No. 376, Pearl-Street. | 1832. | pp. 23, +5½ × 3½, wood-cuts. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. New York: American Tract +Society. 1833 (?). pp. 16, 4½ × 2¾, illustrated, brown paper covers. +_B._ + +Dr. Watts’ | Divine Songs. | First Part. | Northampton: | John +Metcalf.... 1837. | pp. 24, 5⅞ × 3⅝. Frontispiece, vignette on title +and cuts in text; 13 of the Divine Songs. _S._ + +Watts’ Divine Songs; for the use of Children. New Haven: S. Babcock. +1838. pp. 24, 5½ × 3½. _B._ + +Infant Hymns. Designed for young Children. New Haven: S. Babcock. +1840. pp. 16, 3¾ × 2, illustrated, blue paper covers. _B._ + +Infant Hymns; Designed for young Children. New Haven: S. Babcock. +1842 (?). pp. 16, 3¾ × 2¼, illustrated, paper covers. _B._ + +Questions and Answers, Taken from Dr. Watts’s Hymns for Children. +Boston: 1st edition. _NR._ + +Questions and Answers, Taken from Dr. Watts’s Hymns for Children. +(By A. Bullard). 2nd edition. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School +Society. 1843. 32^{o}. _Har._ + +Songs, Divine and Moral.... To which are added, a few prayers, etc. +Boston (Mass.) (Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts No. 8). +1844. pp. 44, 12^{o}. _B.M._, _Har._ + +Songs, Divine and Moral, by I. Watts. Philadelphia, 1844. Copy sold +at Merwin-Clayton’s, Nov. 22–24, 1911. + +Songs, | Divine and Moral, | For the use of Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Complete edition, | with twelve fine engravings on +wood. | Worcester: | Published by C. Harris. | 1845. | pp. 72, 4⅝ × +3½, cloth. Frontispiece portrait. _S._ + +Songs, | Divine and Moral, | For the use of Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Complete edition, | with twelve fine engravings on +wood. | Boston: | Published by William Henshaw. | No. 9 Cornhill. +| 1845 (?). pp. 64, 5¼ × 4¼, paper. Same cuts and printer as item +above. _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs, for Children. Revised by the Committee of +Publication. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. Boston: 1845. pp. +48, 4⅝ × 2¾, paper. Frontispiece and cuts in text. _Bry._ + +Songs, Divine and Moral, for Children. New York: C. Wells. 1845. +Cuts. _A.A._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board +of Publication. 1845. Cloth, illustrated. First edition. + +Songs, | Divine and Moral, | By | Isaac Watts, D.D. Embellished with +numerous engravings. | [Illustration] | Revised by the Committee of +Publication of the | American Sunday-School Union. | Philadelphia: | +American Sunday-School Union, | No 316 Chestnut Street. | 1846 (?). +pp. 90, 6 × 3¾, cloth. Frontispiece and numerous cuts in text. _Bro._ + +Divine | and | Moral Songs | For | Children. | By Rev. Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Published by the | American Tract Society, | 150 +Nassau-Street, New York. | 1846 (?). pp. 64, 4¼ × 2¾, paper. +Frontispiece, vignette on title and five cuts in text. _N.Y._, _S._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children. | By | Isaac +Watts, D. D. | with twenty-four illustrations, | Drawn on the wood +by C. W. Cope. | Philadelphia: | George S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut +Street. | New York:| D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway. | MDCCCL. | pp. +124, 5½ × 4⅜, cloth, illustrated. _B._ See 1851. + +Watts’ | Divine Songs: | for the | Use of Children. | “Let the sweet +work of prayer and praise”, etc. [in four lines] | New Haven: | +Published by S. Babcock. | 1850. | pp. 16, 4⅜ × 2¾, paper. Cuts in +text. One of a set of 12 toy books. _S._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children | By | Isaac +Watts, D.D. | With twenty-four illustrations | Drawn on the wood by +C. W. Cope. | Philadelphia: | George S. Appleton & Co., 164 Chestnut +Street | MDCCCLI. | pp. 124+4 of adv., 5½ × 4⅜, cloth, gilt. Sixteen +full-page, hand-colored wood engravings and several uncolored cuts in +text. Cuts engraved by H. Bricker. _S._ See 1856. + +Horæ Lyricæ and Divine Songs, | By | Isaac Watts, | with a Memoir, +| By Robert Southey. | Boston: | Little, Brown and Company. | New +York: Evans and Dickerson. | Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and +Co. | M.DCCC.LIV. pages 348, 6¾ × 4¼, cloth. Engraved frontispiece +portrait. Pages 293–348 contain the Divine and Moral Songs. _S._, +_B.A._ See 1864, 1866. + +Horæ Lyricæ | By | Isaac Watts | To which are added The Divine Songs +| and Moral Songs for Children | With a life of the Author | By +Robert Southey. | Boston: | Little, Brown and Company. | 1854. _B.P._ +Differs from item above only in wording of title-page. + +Little | Hymn Book | Worcester: | Published by S. A. Howland. | Henry +A. Holland, Printer. | 1855 (?). 3½ × 3. Three little song books +bound together under one general title: Watts’ Divine and Moral +Songs, Hymns for Infant Minds, and The Juvenile Songster. + +Divine and Moral Songs | for | the use of Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | New York: | Robert Carter & Bro. | 1856. | With 24 +illustrations drawn on the wood by C. W. Cope. 5⅝ × 4¼. Some of the +prints are colored. _N.Y._ + +Divine | and Moral Songs. | Attempted | in Easy Language | For the | +Use of Children | With some | Additional Composures. | Philadelphia | +American Sunday-School Union, etc.; 1857 (?). pp. 96, 9½ × 5¾, grain +morocco, stamped in gold. Frontispiece and wood engravings in text, +some after Cope. + +Divine and Moral Songs, etc. New York: American Tract Society. 1858 +(?). Gilt 10¢, paper 3¢. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: American +Sunday-School Union, 1860 (?). pp. 48, 8^{o}, cloth, illustrated. _Bos._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board +of Publication. 1860. Cloth, illustrated. + +Horæ Lyricæ | By | Isaac Watts. | To which are added the Divine Songs +| and Moral Songs for Children. | With a life of the Author, | By +Robert Southey. | Boston: | Little, Brown and Company | M.DCCC.LXIV. +| pp. 368, 7¾ × 3¾. The Divine and Moral Songs occupy pp. 313–368. +_L.I._ + +Divine | and | Moral Songs | for | Children. | By Rev. Isaac Watts, +D.D. | Published by the | American Tract Society, | 28 Cornhill, +Boston. | 1864 (?). pp. 64, 4½ × 2¾ cloth. Illustrated with wood +engravings by J. Hyde. _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs. New York: J. W. Strong. Colored covers. +Offered as one of Three-cent toys, per gross $2.25, on back of +Children’s Pictorial Alphabet. J. W. Strong, New York: 98 Nassau St. +1864 (?). + +Divine and Moral Songs, etc. New York: American Tract Society. 1865 +(?). Paper, gilt 5¢. + +Divine | and | Moral Songs | attempted | in easy language, | +for the | Use of Children, | with some additional composures. | +[Illustration] | Philadelphia: | American Sunday-School Union, | No. +316 Chestnut Street. Boston: No. 9 Cornhill. | Cincinnati: 41 West +Fourth Street. | Louisville: 103 Fourth Street. | 1865(?). 9⅜ × 5¾, +cloth, illustrated. _Gen._ + +The | Poetical works | of | Isaac Watts. | With a memoir. | Boston: | +Little, Brown and Company. | 1866. | pp. 368, 7¾ × 3¾. The Divine and +Moral Songs occupy pp. 313–368. _N.Y._ + +Divine and Moral | Songs | for | Children. | By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | +Illustrated. | New York: | Hurd and Houghton | 401 Broadway | 1866 | +pp. 116, 7¾ × 5⅝, cloth. _New._, _S._ + +Divine and Moral Songs, etc. New York: American Tract Society. 1870 +(?). Cloth 15¢, paper 6¢. + +Divine and Moral | Songs | for | Children. | By the | Rev. Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Illustrated by anecdotes and reflections. | Embellished +with beautiful wood-cuts. | Philadelphia: | Presbyterian Board of +Publication. | pp. 144, 5⅞ × 3¾, cloth. 1872. _U.T._ + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board +of Publication. Cloth, illustrated. 1882. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board +of Publication. Paper, illustrated. 1883. + +Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board +of Publication. Cloth, illustrated. 1886. + +Poems; or Divine and Moral Songs for the use of Children. New York, +1889 (?). _Bry._ + +Songs for Children in easy Language. By Isaac Watts. Illustrated by +C. W. Cope. Engraved by John Thompson. Boston: J. Earle, 1892. pp. +94. See Brit. list, 1848. _L.C._ + +Childhood’s Songs of long ago. Being some of the divine and moral +songs written by Rev. Isaac Watts. With pictures by Blanche McManus. +New York: Herrick & Co. 1897. pp. 87, sq. 8^{o}. _Bos._ + +Divine: and: Moral | Songs: | For Children | By the: Reverend | +Isaac: Watts: D.D. | L. C. Page & Company. | Boston | 1901. | pp. 92, +7¾ × 5½, cloth. 13 full-page plates in color by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin. +See Brit. list, 1896. _Bry._, _Bos._, _S._ + + + _Of this little book there have been + 250 copies privately printed for The + Triptych by The University Press of + Sewanee Tennessee. This copy is_ + + _No._ 101 + + [Illustration: + THE TRIPTYCH + ROOM 1127 15 PARK ROW + NEW YORK NY] + + +Transcriber’s Note: + +Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent +hyphenation in the text. Obsolete and alternative spellings were +not changed. Roman numeral dates are variously spelled without +punctuation, with dots, or with commas. 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The circle sits on a pedestal with his name on it."> + <figcaption> +<p class="ls">D<sup>r</sup>. WATTS.</p> +<p class="right xxs"> +<i>Bartolozzi Sculp.</i></p> + </figcaption> +</figure> +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +</div> + + +<div class="chapter box"> +<div class="box"><!--inner box--> +<p class="center">The Divine and Moral<br> +<span class="xxl ls">SONGS</span><br> +<i>of</i><br> +<span class="larger ls">ISAAC WATTS</span></p> +</div> +<div class="box"> + +<p class="center tall ls">An <i>Essay</i> thereon and a<br> +tentative <i>List of Editions</i> by<br> +<span class="smcap larger">Wilbur Macey Stone</span></p> +</div> +<div class="box"> +<p class="unindent"><i>Out of the Mouth of Babes and +Sucklings thou hast perfected +Praise.</i> <span class="righttext"> +<abbr title="Matthew twenty-one">Matt. <span class="allsmcap">XXI.</span></abbr> 16</span> +</p> +</div> +<div class="box"> +<p class="center"><i>NEW YORK</i><br> +Privately printed for<br> +<i>The Triptych</i><br> +<span class="ls">1918</span></p> +</div><!--end inner box--> +</div><!--end outer box and chapter --> + +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5"></span></p> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Apologia"> +<i>Apologia</i> + </h2> +</div> + +<p class="unindent"><span class="muchlarger">T</span><span class="smcap">he</span> gathering of the data which are the bases +of this little book was an offshoot of my general +interest in the collection of books made for the +children of long ago. This field is rich in human +interest and leads one into folk-lore and fairyland, +a delightful avocation for a man busy in the urgent +bread-and-butter (and pie) struggle of to-day.</p> + +<p>It was my intention and ardent desire to put +forth this little story in 1915, to commemorate +the two-hundredth anniversary of the first edition +of the <cite>Divine and Moral Songs</cite>—but—“the +best-laid plans o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley”, +and mine were ruthlessly spilled; so instead of +this book appearing in 1915, the dear old world +has made several stormy circuits of its orbit and +the chronologers are about to hang out the sign +for 1919 before a kindly fate permitted the fulfillment +of my heart’s desire in this matter. But +never mind, I am doubtless the only one to be +much annoyed, for the whole of 1915 passed +without the appearance of so much as a newspaper +paragraph, so far as I could discover, relative +to the momentous fact that two hundred +years ago an immortal book first saw the light.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6"></span></p> + +<p>It may be, however, of passing interest to note +that the one-hundredth anniversary of the <cite>Divine +Songs</cite> was celebrated by the battle of Waterloo, +and the two-hundredth anniversary found Europe +in the midst of a conflict to which that celebrated +battle of 1815 now seems like boys’ play.</p> + +<p>And so, with Herrick I say:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“Goe thou forth my booke, though late;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Yet be timely fortunate,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">It may chance good-luck may send</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Thee a kinsman, or a friend,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">That may harbour thee, when I,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With my fates neglected lye.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">If thou know’st not where to dwell,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">See, the fier’s by: <i>Farewell</i>.”</div> + <div class="author">W. M. S.</div> +</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="small">September, 1918.</p> +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter box"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a><a id="Page_8"></a></span></p> +<div class="box"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="larger ls">DIVINE</span><br> +<span class="muchlarger ls">SONGS</span><br> +<br> +Attempted in Easy Language<br> +for the Use of<br> +CHILDREN.</p> +</div> +<div class="box"> +<p class="center larger x-ebookmaker-important">By  <span class="ls"><i>I. WATTS</i></span>.<br> +</p> +</div> +<div class="box"> +<p class="hanging"><i>Out of the Mouth of Babes and +Sucklings thou hast perfected +Praise.</i> Matt. xxi. 16.</p> +</div> +<div class="box"> +<p class="center"><span class="ls"><i>LONDON</i>:</span><br> +<br> +Printed for <i>M. Lawrence</i> at the Angel<br> +in the <i>Poultry</i>. 1715. +</p> +</div> +</div><!--end outer box and chapter--> + +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9"></span></p> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Divine_and_Moral_Songs"> +<i>The Divine and Moral Songs +of Isaac Watts</i> + </h2> +</div> + +<p class="unindent"><span class="muchlarger">I</span><span class="smcap">f the</span> <cite>New England Primer</cite> was the “little +Bible” of New England, Dr. Watts’s <cite>Divine +and Moral Songs</cite> has a worthy place beside it as +the “little Hymn-book”, not only of New England, +but of old England as well. These two +juveniles appeared in close sequence and for +nearly one hundred and fifty years jointly contributed +to the infant joys, and doubtless sorrows, +of our sturdy ancestors. Even to-day well-nigh +everyone is familiar with “Let dogs delight to +bark and bite” and “How doth the little busy +bee improve each shining hour”; but alas, ’tis +rarely that a knowledge of their authorship is +associated with a knowledge of the rhymes.</p> + +<p>When these two little books were in vogue +the principal object in teaching children to read +was to open to them the advantages of the +Christian religion. Therefore the children’s first +essay, after learning their letters, was to acquire +a knowledge of the Scriptures and the characters +therein portrayed. In the <cite>Primer</cite> the rhymed +alphabet began with “In Adam’s fall we sinnèd +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10"></span>all” and ended with “Zaccheus he, did climb a +tree, his Lord to see”, each illustrated with a +thrilling wood-cut. The <cite>Divine Songs</cite> opens +with a “General hymn of praise” and closes +with the cradle hymn “Hush, my dear, lie still +and slumber”, all calculated to inculcate grace +and wisdom.</p> + +<p>Before the middle of the nineteenth century +modern influences toward secularization in education +crowded the <cite>New England Primer</cite> into +oblivion, and it has survived only on the shelves +of collectors and in a few reprints as a curiosity +of bygone days. The <cite>Divine Songs</cite> has fared +better, as it is still kept in print by one or two +of our publishing concerns, and several beautiful, +illustrated editions have been issued in very recent +years. The <cite>New England Primer</cite> has long been +considered as having the highest record of editions +and quantity published of any of the old +juveniles, but I am convinced that it must yield +first place to the <cite>Divine Songs</cite>. There are of +record about three hundred and fifty editions of +the <cite>Primer</cite>, but I have been able to gather about +two hundred and fifty editions of the <cite>Divine +Songs</cite> in the British list and over three hundred +in the American list. It would be impossible to +state the total number of copies printed, but assuming +that the accepted estimate of six and one +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11"></span>half million for the <cite>Primer</cite> is approximately +correct, we must grant that the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> +stands with a total number of copies to its credit +considerably in excess of that number.</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p>Isaac Watts, the eldest of nine children, was +born at Southampton on the 17th of July, 1674, +about sixteen years after the death of Oliver +Cromwell. His father was a schoolmaster, a +man of excellent mental attainments and a Dissenter +who suffered persecution for his convictions, +even to the extent of imprisonment. This +was during the reign of Charles II, when nonconformity +was looked upon as a crime. Young +Isaac was reared in this atmosphere of protest, +and it is of record that while the father lay in +prison “Mrs. Watts was seen sitting on a stone, +near the prison door, suckling her son Isaac.” +Little Isaac was a precocious child, reading Latin +at four, and was known as a boy who loved his +books more than his play. The result was that +his over-studious habits greatly militated against +his health, and during most of his life he was a +physical weakling.</p> + +<p>A vivid pen-picture of this anemic boy in his +school days is given in a review of a new edition +of some of his later works, in the <cite>North British +Review</cite> in 1857. The reviewer writes:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12"></span></p> + +<blockquote> +<p>“In the gloomy reign of James <abbr title="Two">II</abbr>, the most diligent +boy in the Grammar School of Southampton was +a little Puritan. So tiny, that he would hardly have +passed for eleven years of age, he was so grave and +good, as to be at once a model and a reproof to his +sturdier class-mates; and, although in repose there was +nothing peculiarly prepossessing in his pale face, with +its prominent cheekbones, and a forehead far from +lofty, the moment that some hard question posed the +form, the sparkling eye and the light nervous figure +quivering with the pent-up answer, betrayed the genius +and the scholar. Already he had made good proficiency +in French, Latin, and Greek, and had delighted +his mother, whilst he astonished his companions, by +ingenious acrostics and clever impromptu stanzas; and +altogether, with his quiet, docile disposition, and his +precocious attainments, he made glad the heart of the +<abbr title="Reverend">Rev.</abbr> Mr. Pinhorn, who, like many a disconsolate preceptor +before and since, at last foresaw a dim and distant +Ararat, and hailed the youth who should yet +‘comfort him concerning his work and the toil of his +hands.’”</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>When he was twenty-two, in 1696, young +Watts became tutor to the children of a wealthy +friend of his family at Stoke-Newington, and two +years later, while thus employed, he preached +his first sermon on his twenty-fourth birthday as +assistant to Dr. Chauncy, minister of the Independent +congregation in Mark Lane, London. +In 1702 he succeeded to Dr. Chauncy’s pastorate, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13"></span>taking full charge of the congregation. But +his frail health soon necessitated an assistant with +whom to share his burdens.</p> + +<p>In Dr. Watts’s congregation was Sir Thomas +Abney and his family. Sir Thomas was for many +years an alderman of the city of London and at one +time its mayor. Dr. Watts in 1712, at the age +of thirty-eight, succumbed to the arduous tasks +of his ministry and quite collapsed. Lady Abney, +ever <a id="chg3"></a>alert in good works, took the worthy parson +to Theobalds, their country home at Stoke-Newington, +for a few weeks’ rest and fresh air. +His visit has come down to us as a record for +length. The weeks sped on and then the years, +and still he continued a welcome and honored +guest until his death thirty-six years after his advent +to that hospitable household. While under +the sheltering roof of Theobalds, Dr. Watts +wrote several of his justly celebrated works and in +1715 gave to the world the memorable volume +of <cite>Divine Songs for Children</cite>. In graceful acknowledgment +of his guestship, he dedicated that +little book to Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth Abney, +the three daughters of Sir Thomas and Lady +Abney. One of the two known copies of the +first edition of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> bears on the +inside of its front cover in Dr. Watts’s handwriting, +“To Mrs. Elizabeth Abney, I. W.” +Of course Elizabeth, a child of eleven, was not +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14"></span>“Mrs.” in our present understanding of that term, +but “Mistress”, used as an expression of respect +even to children at that time.</p> + +<p>This presentation copy has found a home in +the sumptuous library of the late J. Pierpont +Morgan, and another first edition of one of Dr. +Watts’s books in that library is similarly inscribed +to another daughter of the Abneys’.</p> + +<p>The Morgan copy of the first edition of <cite>Divine +Songs</cite> was specially bound in red morocco +rather elaborately gold-tooled. This copy had +an interesting career before reaching its present +resting-place. It was picked up by a Nottingham +bookseller with a handful of other old books in +a country house in 1902, at a cost of less than a +guinea for the lot. It had come down to its previous +owner from her great-grandfather, Meredith +Townsend, co-pastor with Dr. Watts at Stoke-Newington. +The bookseller sold it to Mr. James +Ward, a collector of Nottingham, for about £30 +and by him it was sold at Sotheby’s, after spirited +bidding, for £155 to Mr. Morgan’s agent. The +following Christmas, in a privately printed booklet, +Mr. Ward distributed to a few friends a most +interesting history of this little volume.</p> + +<p>In the thirteen pages of dedication which appears +in the earlier editions of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite>, +Dr. Watts pays pleasing tribute to the hospitality +of the Abney family, beginning as follows:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15"></span></p> + +<blockquote> +<p>“My Dear Young Friends, Whom I am constrain’d +to love and honour by many Obligations. It was the +generous and condescending Friendship of your Parents +under my weak Circumstances of Health; that +brought me to their Country-Seat for the Benefit of +the Air; but it was an Instance of most uncommon +Kindness, to supply me there so cheerfully for two +Years of Sickness with the richest Conveniences of +Life. Such a Favour requires my most affectionate Returns +of Service to themselves, and to all that is dear +to them; and meer Gratitude demands some solemn +and public acknowledgment.”</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>The dedication then goes on to praise not +only Sir Thomas and his wife, but particularly +their three daughters whose education Dr. Watts +superintended, and closes with the following +benediction:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>“May the Blessings of his Right Hand more enrich +you daily, as your Capacities and your Years increase; +and may he add bountifully of the Favours of his Left +Hand, Riches and Honour. May his Grace make you +so large a Return of all the Kindness I have received +in your Family, as may prevail above the fondest Hopes +of your Parents, and even exceed the warmest Prayers +of</p> + +<p class="p0 indent35 unindent">Your most Affectionate<br> +Monitor and Obliged<br> +Servant, in the daily<br> +Views of a future<br> +World, <span class="smcap righttext">I. Watts.</span></p> + +<p class="p0 unindent">Theobalds,<br> +June 18,<br> +1715.”</p> +</blockquote> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16"></span></p> + +<p>This quaint dedication was omitted from those +editions printed after 1750, but the preface, “To +all that are concerned in the Education of Children”, +has persisted to this day in nearly every +edition that has come to my observation. This +preface is addressed to “My Friends”, and begins +“It is an awful and important Charge, that is +committed to you. The Wisdom and Welfare of +the succeeding Generation are entrusted with you +beforehand, and depend much on your Conduct.... +Verse was at first design’d for the Service +of God, though it hath been wretchedly abused +since.... What is learnt in <em>Verse</em>, is longer retained +in Memory, and sooner recollected.... These <cite>Divine +Songs</cite> may be a pleasant and proper Matter +for their daily or weekly Worship, to sing one +in the Family, at such time as the Parents or +Governors shall appoint; and therefore I have +confined the Verse to the most usual Psalm +Tunes. The greatest Part of this little Book +was composed several Years ago, at the Request +of a Friend, who has been long engag’d in the +Work of Catechising a very great Number of +Children of all kinds, and with abundant Skill +and Success. So that you will find here nothing +that savours of a Party: The Children of high +and low Degree, of the Church of <em>England</em> or +Dissenters, baptized in Infancy, or not, may all +join together in these Songs. And as I have endeavoured +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17"></span>to sink the Language to a Level of a +Child’s Understanding, and yet to keep it (if +possible) above Contempt; so I have design’d to +profit all (if possible) and offend none.”</p> + +<p>Then he closes with a reference to the <cite>Moral +Songs</cite> as follows: “I have added at the End an +Attempt or two of <em>Sonnets</em> on <em>Moral Subjects</em> for +Children, with an Air of Pleasantry, to provoke +some fitter Pen to write a little Book of them.” +The earliest record I have found of one so “provoked” +is in the preface to Mrs. Barbauld’s +“Hymns in Prose, For Children”, published +about 1775. There she writes, “Among the +number of Books composed for the use of children, +though there are many, and some on a +very rational plan, which unfold the system, and +give a summary of the doctrines of Religion, it +would be difficult to find <em>one</em> calculated to assist +them in the devotional part of it, except indeed +<cite>Dr. Watts’s Hymns for Children</cite>. These are in +pretty general use; and the Author is deservedly +honoured for the condescension of his Muse; +which is very able to take a loftier flight.”</p> + +<p>It is not, however, until the early part of the +nineteenth century that I find a work in direct +imitation of Dr. Watts’s little book. Then in +close sequence several volumes of verses for children +appeared, the authors of each of which +acknowledged the impetus to their muse from +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18"></span>Dr. Watts’s preface. The first of these was “Moral +Songs for the Instruction and Amusement of +Children Intended as a Companion to Dr. Watts’ +Divine Songs, by John Oakman and Others.” +This was published in London in 1802 by Darton +and Harvey. The preface states, “Whoever follows +the manner of another who has been happy +in any particular way, however successful he may +prove in his labours, will only gain the servile +name of an imitator. A man so eminent as Dr. +Watts has been in his Hymns and Moral Songs, +for the edification of children, it must be granted, +there is little hope of following with much success.... +But as he declared himself there is much +room left to proceed in the same way, and has +in a manner exhorted others to pursue his ideas, +the Author of this little book hopes to be excused +for the attempt if not applauded.” And +surely the author of these later “Moral Songs” is +open to the accusation of being a “servile imitator”, +as witness one extract:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> +<div class="stanza"> + <div class="title"><i>Danger of Mispending Time</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0">How craftily the spider weaves,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And draws her slender threads!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Yet sudden chance her hopes deceives,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And spoils the net she spreads.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Let me not spend my precious hours</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In trifling works like these;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But still employ my active pow’rs</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In what may truly please.</div> +</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19"></span></p> + +<p class="unindent">The style well copied but the inspiration feeble +and the moral hardly deducible from the subject. +A few years later, the Taylor sisters, Jane, Ann, +Mary and the rest of them, who had in 1803 +been very successful with their “Original Poems +for Infant Minds”, published a volume entitled +“Hymns for Infant Minds”. These young women +in their preface acknowledge their indebtedness +to Dr. Watts as follows:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>“The ‘Divine Songs’ of Dr. Watts, so beautiful, +and so universally admired, almost discourage, by their +excellence, a similar attempt; and lead the way, where +it appears temerity to follow. But as the narrow limits +to which he confined himself, excluded a number of +useful subjects, the following Hymns, though with +much diffidence, are presented to the public.”</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>It was not long after the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> rode +into popularity on wave after wave of editions +that itching fingers began to busy themselves with +alterations and modifications of these simple and +sincere verses. As early as 1720 one Cobbin, a +reverend doctor, conceived the idea that the work +would be more useful with Scripture references +appended to each song. So he forthwith lumbered +up the little volume with voluminous footnotes +of references and comments, but thanks be, +the dear children could skip all this dry stuff.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20"></span></p> + +<p>Then later the strong theology of some of the +songs annoyed our good friends the Unitarians +and they, by the hand of one who modestly subscribed +herself on the title-page as “A Lady”, +proceeded to take the starch out of some of the +more rigid ones, to sprinkle in a little “probation +after death” and entirely omit Song III, “Praise +to God for redemption through Jesus Christ.” +That song was a bit too Trinitarian for remodeling. +Dr. Watts’s delightful preface is omitted +and a new preface setting forth the reasons for +revision and alteration, is substituted. This is +signed “E. Y.” and dated November 17, 1785.</p> + +<p>This “Revised and Altered” form evidently +proved popular, as a second edition appeared in +1787, with an added note that “A large impression +of the first edition of these Hymns, Revised +and Altered, having been favorably received by +the public, the editor has been encouraged to +give further attention to their improvement, and +to cause them to be printed in their present form.” +The fair reviser was brave enough to retain Song +<abbr title="Eleven">XI</abbr>, “Heaven and Hell”, but replaced Dr. Watts’s +second stanza</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“There is a dreadful Hell,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And everlasting Pains,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where Sinners must with Devils dwell,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In Darkness, Fire, and Chains.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21"></span></p> + +<p class="unindent">with the following, much more comforting to a +naughty world</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“There also is a future state,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Of Mis’ry, grief and pain;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where wicked children long must wait,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And many years remain.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">And in verse 4, Dr. Watts wrote</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“Lest I should be cut off Today,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And sent t’ eternal Death.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">for the last line of which she has substituted</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“And suffer after death.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">In the first verse of Song <abbr title="Twelve">XII</abbr>, “The Advantages +of early Religion”, Dr. Watts’s last line reads</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0">“The Road that leads to Hell.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">and which our tender reviser changes to</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“The Road that leads to ill.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">In Song <abbr title="Thirteen">XIII</abbr>, verse 5, Dr. Watts wrote</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“One stroke of his almighty Rod,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Shall send young Sinners quick to Hell.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">Our reviser changed the last line to read</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“May send young sinners to the grave.”</div> +<div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“Jesus who reigns above the Sky,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And keeps the World in Awe,”</div> +</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22"></span></p> + +<p class="unindent">are the first two lines of verse 2, Song <abbr title="Fourteen">XIV</abbr>. +These are changed to</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“Jesus tho’ now above the sky,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Belovèd by his God”.</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">The last verse of Song <abbr title="Fifteen">XV</abbr> begins</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“Then let me always watch my Lips,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Lest I be struck to Death and Hell.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">The second line is altered to</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0">“And keep my Tongue from ill.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">In verse 4 of Song <abbr title="Seventeen">XVII</abbr> Dr. Watts wrote</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0">“The Devil tempts one Mother’s Son,”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">The revised edition reads</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Passion, and Pride, may tempt each one”.</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p>From the revised version of Song<abbr title="Eighteen">XVIII</abbr>, +“Against Scoffing and calling Names”, the reference +to the children who scoffed Elisha is +omitted by dropping out verses 4 and 5, as follows:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“When Children in their wanton Play,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Serv’d old Elisha so;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And bid the Prophet go his Way,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">‘Go up, thou Bald-head, go’;</div> +<div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“God quickly stopt their wicked Breath,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And sent two raging Bears,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">That tore them Limb from Limb to Death,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With Blood, and Groans, and Tears.”</div> +</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23"></span></p> + +<p class="unindent">In Song <abbr title="Twenty-three">XXIII</abbr>, “Obedience to Parents”, verse +3 was originally written</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“What heavy Guilt upon him lies!</div> + <div class="verse indent2">How cursèd is his Name!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The Ravens shall pick out his Eyes,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And Eagles eat the same.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">has been softened to the following:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“What heavy Guilt upon him lies!</div> + <div class="verse indent2">How hateful is his Name!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Who thus his Parents shall despise,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Will bring Himself to Shame.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p>Listed among the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> in the British +Museum are the following collateral items: “Divine +Songs attempted in Easy Language. (A +sequel to Dr. Watts’s divine songs for children +and schools.) The Rake reformed in the House +of Mourning. The Cottage Library of Christian +Knowledge etc. <abbr title="Volume One">Vol. I.</abbr>” 1806 (?) <abbr title="octavo">8<sup>o</sup></abbr>; and “A +Supplement to Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs for the +use of Children, selected from various authors. +London.” 1820 (?) <abbr title="duodecimo">12<sup>o</sup></abbr>.</p> + +<p>From another source I find, “Essays adapted +to Dr. Watts’ Divine Songs. For the instruction +of young people. By Rev. A. Scott. 13th edition. +London: Printed for Thomas Tegg. 1841. +Illustrated.”</p> + +<p>In an edition published in Exeter, in 1812, +entitled “Dr. Watts’s Hymns for Children, Revised +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24"></span>and Altered, so as to render them of General +Use”, the editor, who modestly signs himself +“C”, explains as follows: “Dr. Watts, in +the Preface to his Divine and Moral Songs for +Children, says; ‘You will see here nothing that +savours of a party,’ nevertheless it cannot be denied, +that, in several parts of these Hymns, expressions +do occur, which are objectionable to +many Christians; and which, there is reason to +believe, the amiable and excellent Author would +have avoided, had he written them toward the +latter part of his life.” Our editor then goes on +to state which obnoxious weeds he has uprooted +and what new flowers he has transplanted from +other gardens. Of some of the latter he says: +“The next five, <abbr title="Numbers">Nos.</abbr> 9 to 13, I have taken the +liberty of inserting from a very superior little +publication, entitled ‘Hymns for Infant Minds’.” +But even here our editor must have a slap at the +theology of the gentle “Taylor sisters”, and which +he does in the following terms, throwing in a +sop at the end to mitigate the bitter: “I cannot +agree with the respectable Authors in some of the +opinions which their Hymns express, because I +do not think those opinions are the doctrine of +the Scriptures; but I have no hesitation in earnestly +recommending the book to all judicious +Parents.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25"></span></p> + +<p>The inscriptions of presentation and ownership +in some of the old copies of the <cite>Divine +Songs</cite> are quaintly interesting. In one, printed +in Boston in 1759, is found on the reverse of the +title-page in almost illegible characters, “Bithrah +norton | hur buk”, and then follows several +words entirely undecipherable. Lower down on +the page in a later and more readable hand is +written, “Sarah Norton her | Book God Give +her Grace therein to look | and when the bells +do | for her tole Lord Jesus | Christ” ... and +there the leaf is torn off.</p> + +<p>In a London copy of 1773, which is thumbed +well-nigh to pieces, the fly-leaf is inscribed in +elaborate childish printing, “<span class="smcap">Samuel, Hovey.</span> | +<abbr title="Junior"><span class="smcap">Junr</span></abbr>: & <span class="smcap">Lydia, Hovey.</span> | <abbr title="Junior"><span class="smcap">Junr.</span></abbr> our <span class="smcap">Book +Given</span> | To us By the Schoolmast | er of Buxton +July <abbr title="ye">y<sup>e</sup></abbr> 21<sup>st</sup> 1774”. Then on the inside of the +front cover there appears in a crabbed running +hand, “To Mehitabel | And Phebe Hovey | This +with our Love to you | Both for you to remem | +ber us by | Sam<sup>ll</sup> Hovey | and Lydia Hovey”; +while near the foot of the inside of the front +cover is inscribed in shaky childish characters, +“<i>R</i>ut<i>h</i> S<i>h</i>o<span class="allsmcap">R</span><i>t</i> | <i>h</i>e<span class="allsmcap">R</span> <i>b</i>oo<i>k</i> | <i>a</i>ge<i>d</i> +<i>s</i>e<i>v</i>e<i>n</i> | <i>y</i>e<i>a</i><span class="smcap">r</span><i>s</i>”. +So this little volume bears records of what +seem to be three generations of lovers of these +old songs.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26"></span></p> + +<p>The fly-leaf of a copy printed in London in +1779 bears the inscription in bold, childishly +printed letters covering the whole page, “William +| shErWood | MARCh 23 | 1788”.</p> + +<p>In another copy bearing a London imprint +and dated 1780 is “William Hayward his Book +| Drayton | October 16 1782”, all written the +long way of the page and apparently by a grown +person. Later William himself took a hand +and in an upper unoccupied corner scribbled +“William | Haywood | Drayton | Berks”.</p> + +<p>In another London copy, 1787, in a fine +feminine hand, is written “Catherine Wright | +her book | The Gift of the | <abbr title="Reverend">Rev<sup>d</sup></abbr> Dr. Priestly”.</p> + +<p>Inside the back cover of a copy printed in +New Haven, <abbr title="Connecticut">Conn.</abbr>, in 1809, is pasted a presentation +book-plate, home-made, and bearing a +border of vine and leaves in green, while within +the border is inscribed in a fine schoolmistress +hand, “Hannah Kendall’s Book | given her by +her Instructress | as a reward of merit”.</p> + +<p>A Boston copy of 1818 was once “George T. +Read’s Book | Presented to him by his Aunt +Eliza Read 1856 | Belfast”; doubtless Belfast, +Maine. But an avaricious member of the family, +doubtless of a later and degenerate descent, ruthlessly +crossed off this inscription and wrote +the long way of the page and nearer its base, +“Charlotte Read’s Book”.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27"></span></p> + +<p>The only record I have encountered to indicate +that the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> was used regularly +as a Sunday School song-book occurs in a copy +dated “London 1828.” Pasted on the reverse of +the title in this book is a label headed “The Protestant +Dissenters’ | Sunday School, | at | Christchurch +Meeting.” This heading is followed by +a number of Biblical quotations beginning with +“Suffer little children, etc.” Pasted inside the +back cover is a similar label similarly headed. +Then we find this admonition: “No scholar in +this School to be allowed to swear, lie, nor +fight;—nor to be disobedient to Masters, Parents, +or Guardians”, followed by more Scripture +texts, and finally, “Sabbath Schools are +of the utmost importance when judiciously conducted.”</p> + +<p>In another, a New Haven, Conn., copy, 1824, +on the title-page itself is written “Master George +and Miss S. E. Derby | from their affectionate +mother | August <abbr title="second">2<sup>d</sup></abbr> 1826”. Lower down on the +same page and in the same hand appears, “Suffer +little children to come | unto me for of such is +the kingdom of Heaven”.</p> + +<p>And lastly, a modern copy containing numerous, +most delightful, colored illustrations by Mrs. +Arthur Gaskin, is inscribed by the artist to the +author of this essay—a cherished possession.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28"></span></p> + +<p>Numerous memorials and biographies of Dr. +Watts have been written since his death, but +perhaps the most elaborate and exhaustive was +published in London in 1914, written by Thomas +Wright, the author of several other biographies +of notable men of the past. In this work considerable +space is devoted to a relation of the +environment and influence under which the <cite>Divine +and Moral Songs</cite> were written. Mr. Wright +very circumstantially tells the story of a visit, +“apparently in the spring of 1720”, by Dr. +Watts to Hedingham Castle, Essex, the home +of Mr. Robert Ashhurst, who had married Lady +Abney’s sister. Our author states that some of +the <cite>Divine and Moral Songs</cite> were written there +during that visit. He further relates, “The pretty +poem ‘How doth the little busy bee’ was probably +not only a kindly message to children, but +also a humorous compliment to the industry and +taste displayed by Mr. Ashhurst in restoring his +house.” But alas! in view of the fact that at +least two copies of the first edition, each plainly +dated 1715, are in existence, and one of which +I have minutely examined, our credulity is a bit +overtaxed by Mr. Wright’s narrative; and we +wish he had not been so detailed and particular in +his description of events and circumstances that +could not possibly have occurred prior to or in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29"></span>connection with the writing of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite>. +We also read in the preface to the first edition +of 1715, “The greater part of this little book +was composed several years ago at the request of +a friend.”</p> + +<p>The revised edition, first published in 1785, +continued to appear over a long period, and as +late as 1803, in the <cite>Guardian of Education</cite>, is +found a scathing review of this emasculated +work. Mrs. Trimmer, the editor of the <cite>Guardian</cite>, +had previously been accused of having been +the reviser, but she emphatically denies all responsibility +and unequivocally censures the editor +for having so radically changed the theology +set forth by Dr. Watts in these small hymns. +She further remarks, “The Hosannas in Dr. +Watts’s original work, are perfectly agreeable to +Scripture, and so impressive, that we cannot reconcile +ourselves to the exchange of them for Dr. +Clarke’s. Neither can we readily part either +with the ‘Hymn of Praise to God for Redemption’; +or with ‘The Cradle Hymn’. However, as +Christians, we wish not to deprive those who are +satisfied with this mutilated edition of the edification +it still affords; but let them on their side +allow to the children of the Church the full +benefit of the author’s pious labours.”</p> + +<p>In this same volume is reviewed a little book +published by Darton & Harvey, entitled “Moral +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30"></span>Songs for the Instruction and Amusement of +Children, intended as a companion to Dr. +Watts’s Divine Songs, by John Oakman and +others.” In reviewing this little work, Mrs. +Trimmer states, “Though Dr. Watts’s Divine +Songs have excited many writers to imitate +them, they still remain unrivalled. No work of +the kind that we have yet met with, is worthy +to be compared to them, for beauty of composition +and elegant simplicity of style.”</p> + +<p>Though a bit upsetting in chronological sequence, +I cannot refrain from referring here to +another much later tribute by Mrs. S. C. Hall, +who in her “Pilgrimages to English Shrines” +(Appleton, 1854), says of Dr. Watts, “But after +all, his popularity is based on the universal +knowledge of his Divine and Moral Songs; and +never was popularity more widely diffused, better +merited or productive of more glorious results.”</p> + +<p>Unscrupulous publishers continued to mutilate +this little work, and there are also some interesting +differences between British and American editions. +In Song <abbr title="Five">V</abbr> as originally published God is +praised</p> + +<p class="center"> +“That I was born on British ground.” +</p> + +<p>While in some of the American editions this +form was retained, still as early as 1799 in the +Boston edition of Coverly it is changed to</p> + +<p class="center"> +“That I was born on Christian ground.” +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31"></span></p> + +<p>In the Cambridge (U.S.) edition published by +the trustees of Phillips’ Academy, the last line +of the fifth verse reads</p> + +<p class="center"> +“Teach me thy goodness to admire.” +</p> + +<p class="unindent">while the original reads</p> + +<p class="center"> +“Warn me to ’scape eternal fire.” +</p> + +<p>The editor of this Cambridge edition fell into +an error in the last line of verse 1, Song <abbr title="Sixteen">XVI</abbr>, +that has persisted in many, many editions. In +the original this first verse reads:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“Let Dogs delight to bark and bite,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">For God hath made them so;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Let Bears and Lions growl and fight,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">For ’tis their natures too.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p>The Cambridge error consisted in printing the +last word of the verse “to”.</p> + +<p>In many of the modern editions the old form +“that” is changed to “which”.</p> + +<p>The learned editor in Cambridge blundered +in punctuation also. In Song <abbr title="Fifteen">XV</abbr>, verse 1, he +inserted a comma in the last line after “all” +that quite destroys the sense; and again in the +last line of verse 2, Song <abbr title="Twenty">XX</abbr>, the comma inserted +after “food” is worse than superfluous.</p> + +<p>Many publishers of juvenile books drew generously +upon the storehouse of the <cite>Divine and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32"></span>Moral Songs</cite>. In the 1781 Boston edition of +Janeway’s “Token for Children” are included +Songs XII, XIII and XIV. In “Choice Poetry” +published at Derby, England, in 1835, are four +of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite>, two of the <cite>Moral Songs</cite> and +the Cradle Hymn. In “Reading Made Easy” +published by J. Weatherly, Berwick, about 1820, +under the general heading “Lessons in Verse”, +are printed eight of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite>. A number +of editions of the <cite>New England Primer</cite> contain +selections from the same source.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts in his preface states that the <cite>Divine +and Moral Songs</cite> were intended to be sung to well-known +psalm tunes, but before the end of the +eighteenth century editions with special music +began to appear. In 1800 Dr. Jackson published +an edition wherein words and music were engraved +throughout on copper plates.</p> + +<p>Although early in the eighteenth century +many children’s books were issued with illustrations, +usually crude wood-cuts, I have been +unable to find an illustrated edition of the <cite>Divine +and Moral Songs</cite> in England earlier than 1760 +and in America earlier than 1773. In the beginning +of the nineteenth century illustrated editions +were more frequent, and one published in +London in 1823 has an ornate folding frontispiece +in colors. With the revival of wood engraving +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33"></span>between 1840 and 1850, there appeared +a number of elaborately illustrated editions with +pictures by eminent artists. Perhaps the most +beautifully illustrated edition of this period was +that published by John Van Voorst in London. +This appeared in 1848 and contains thirty pictures +drawn on the wood by C. W. Cope, <abbr title="Royal Academy of Arts"><span class="allsmcap">A.R.A.</span></abbr>, +and cut by John Thompson. They are definitely +illustrative of the text and are most daintily conceived +and executed. These illustrations were extensively +copied in later editions by other publishers, +particularly in America. The first issue +of this edition contained on page 28 the “Death +Print” as a tailpiece to the song “Heaven and +Hell”. This picture was evidently too realistic +and too fully illustrative of the song, so it was +promptly suppressed and replaced by one from +a now blank page farther on in the book.</p> + +<p>The size of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> has varied greatly, +from the little books published by Rusher +of Banbury, 4½ by 2¾ inches, to the huge +volume 10¾ by 8½ inches, issued by Nisbet +and Company, London. This Nisbet edition is +undated, but appears to have been published between +1870 and 1880, and is illustrated by such +eminent artists as W. Holman Hunt, George Du +Maurier, H. K. Brown, Marcus Stone and others. +The pictures were reproduced by the “New +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34"></span>Graphotype Engraving Process”, apparently zinc +etching. As early as 1810 selections from the +<cite>Divine Songs</cite> with illustrations were engraved on +copper and arranged as a broadside school piece, +the pictures being carefully hand-colored. These +“school pieces” were large sheets, 19 by 15 inches, +with a border of pictures and a blank space in +the middle in which the child wrote his “school +piece” or composition.</p> + +<p>In 1855 an edition in book form was printed +on cloth as an aid to durability, while in 1849 +an edition was issued with phonetic spelling. +Early in the nineteenth century “The Beggar’s +Petition” and “The Universal Prayer” were +added and carried through numerous editions.</p> + +<p>For many years following the first edition, +this little book of songs was of uniform size, +carefully printed, well sewed, and bound in full +calf. It was a sturdy little volume and many +copies of these early editions have come down +to us in excellent condition.</p> + +<p>A copy of the eighth edition, 1729, is cherished +by its owner for the following inscription on the +fly-leaf, by the hand of Dr. Watts:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“To My Dear Neece</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Sarah Brackstone</div> + <div class="verse indent18">I. W.”</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">This Sarah was a daughter of Dr. Watts’s sister +Sarah, who married a Brackstone. Later, James +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35"></span>Brackstone, a brother to Sarah the daughter, +was a London printer. The fifteenth edition of +the <cite>Divine Songs</cite>, 1739, was published by R. +Hett and J. Brackstone, and the sixteenth edition, +1740, bears Brackstone’s name alone, as +publisher. But alas, James proved a black sheep; +in a letter written by Dr. Watts in 1746 to his +brother Enoch Watts, is the sad record that +James Brackstone was ejected from the church +for “damning and cursing in a shocking manner” +his uncle Dr. Watts, and for declaring that he +would no longer be a member of his church.</p> + +<p>This presentation copy evidently soon descended +to a younger member of the family, as on the +same fly-leaf that bears the inscription by Dr. +Watts is written in a childish hand, “Bety Brackstone +Her Book 1730”, and on the fly-leaf at +the back of the book appears “Bety Brackstone, +Her Book, God Give Grace therein to Look, +but wen the bel be gins to tole, Lord Jesus +Christ reseive her Sole. A Men.”</p> + +<p>In the “English Primer” published by Mosley, +Derby and London, about 1825, is printed the +only rhyme directed to these songs, which I have +discovered. It is as follows:</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“What sweet-er book to me be-longs</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Than Dr. Watts’s book of Songs?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">O! I would learn them all the day,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">I’m sure I love them more than play.</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36"></span> +<div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0a">“When I’m grown up,—yes, quite in age,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Still I shall love his plea-sing page;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Still I shall love the songs I sung,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">That taught me good when I was young.”</div> +</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class="unindent">These verses, with a wood-cut above, occupy +the whole of page 29. The illustration is of a +prig of a boy in chimney-pot hat, leaning against +a sun-dial in a garden. In the boy’s hands is the +precious volume which he is studiously perusing.</p> + +<p>A comparison of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> with other +portions of Dr. Watts’s writings reveals in many +instances a correspondence in subject-matter. +The thought of Song XVIII, “Against scoffing +and calling names”, is used as part of one of his +sermons; and Song <abbr title="Twenty-two">XXII</abbr>, “Against pride in +clothes”, appears in a slightly different dress in +another sermon. Song <abbr title="Twenty-five">XXV</abbr>, beginning “My +God who makes the sun to know”, is a simplified +rendering of one of the hymns in his larger +hymn book.</p> + +<p>It is interesting to note that the <cite>Divine and +Moral Songs</cite> were not composed during Dr. Watts’s +youth, but after he had arrived at middle life, a +bachelor, a student and an invalid. It would not +have been surprising if he had at that time lost +interest in children, even if he did not find their +company a burden. But his heart kept its youthfulness, +as the sweetness and simplicity of many +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37"></span>of these songs will testify, in spite of the rigid +theology of others of them. And so his Michaelmas +summer brought up again the blossoms of +spring and wove therefrom a fragrant garland.</p> + +<p>One appreciative biographer, referring to the +tender sentiments of the Cradle Hymn, writes: +“‘Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber’, was +written not by a young and loving mother bending +over her baby whom she all but stifles with +kindness and kisses, but by a little weazened retired +bachelor, whose heart, however, was as +warm, whose ways were as gentle as those of the +happiest and fondest mother.”</p> + +<p>The <cite>Divine and Moral Songs</cite> was not by any +means the only book for children written by Dr. +Watts. He was the author of several little catechisms, +graded from one for the smallest infants +to others for older children. In 1720 he published +“The Art of Reading and Writing English” +and he also in 1725 wrote for the perusal of +their elders, “A Discourse on the Education of +Children and Youth”; while in 1728 was issued +his “Prayers Composed For the Use and Imitation +of Children, Suited to their different Ages +and their various Occasions.”</p> + +<p>Editions of the <cite>Divine Songs</cite> appeared in Dutch +and Welsh and one was printed in India in +English.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38"></span></p> + +<p>The largest collection in a public library is that +in the British Museum where there are eighty-seven +specimens, the earliest being a copy of the +ninth edition, dated 1728. The Bodleian Library +at Oxford has examples of thirty-three editions +while in this country the Boston Public +Library and the American Antiquarian Society +of Worcester, <abbr title="Massachusetts">Mass.</abbr>, each has a dozen, and the +library of the General Theological Seminary in +New York nearly as many.</p> + +<p>And so may this little book of appreciation +renew, at least in a few hearts, the love and +memory of those dear, quaint and sometimes +frightful songs that contributed so much of entertainment +and joy to the lives of nearly two centuries +of English-speaking children both in the +old world and the new.</p> + +<p class="p2 center allsmcap ls">VALE</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="image038" style="max-width: 70.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image038.jpg" alt="Woodcut of a girl standing in front of an oval mirror on a table looking at her reflection."> +</figure> +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39"></span></p> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Bibliographical_Notes_and"> +<i>Bibliographical Notes and<br> +Lists of Editions</i> + </h2> +</div> + +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a><a id="Page_41"></a></span> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Bibliographical_Notes"> +<i>Bibliographical Notes</i> + </h2> +</div> + +<p class="unindent"><span class="muchlarger">A</span><span class="smcap">lthough</span> for several generations last past, the +little book which we are considering has been +known as the <cite>Divine and Moral Songs</cite>, it did not +always bear this full title. Throughout the first +seventy-five years of its existence it was known +simply as the “Divine Songs”, in spite of the +fact that during all that time the book contained +“a slight specimen of Moral Songs”, from two +in the earlier editions to the full complement of +seven later. I have seen no copies of the 13th, +14th or 15th editions, but the 16th edition (1740) +has the title extended by the following words: +“With some additional composures”, that being +the first title-page reference to the <cite>Moral Songs</cite> +which I have found. No copy, issued by the regular +publishers, so far as I have discovered, ever +bore the words “and Moral Songs”. The first +occurrence of the <cite>Moral Songs</cite> in the title, which +I find, is in an edition issued in London in 1785, +under the name of “Dr. Watts’s Hymns and +Moral Songs for the use of Children Revised and +Altered ... By a Lady.” It is not until 1794 that +I find the now well-known title of <cite>Divine and +Moral Songs</cite>. The twenty-seventh edition (1795) +is the last one which I find bearing the number +of the edition, although the book continued to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42"></span>be published by the same people or their successors +at least until 1821.</p> + +<p>From 1785 numerous editions appeared bearing +the names of other publishers and “Printed by +permission of the Proprietors.” The first edition +emanating in Great Britain outside of London, +which I have found, was printed in Welsh at +Caerfyrddin in 1771, and in 1776 an edition was +published from Salisbury in English. A few Dutch +items have been included in the British list.</p> + +<p>Substantially all of the editions which have +come to my attention have on their title-pages +the quotation from <abbr title="Matthew Twenty-one">Matt. <span class="allsmcap">XXI</span></abbr>, 16, “Out of the +mouth of babes, etc.”, but in the following list +of editions that quotation is indicated in the interest +of brevity, except in the first edition, by +a few dashes after the author’s name. Where not +so indicated, it is not necessarily to be inferred +that it does not so appear, but only that the writer +has been unable to verify that appearance.</p> + +<p>A date followed by a question-mark in parentheses +indicates that the date is doubtful or +approximate.</p> + +<p>In the following list of editions various references +are abbreviated as follows:</p> + +<table> +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>A.A.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>B.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Private collection.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>B.A.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Boston Athenæum.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>B.M.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Library of the British Museum.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>B.H.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Bates Hall Public Library, Boston, Mass.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Bod.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Bodleian Library, Oxford. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43"></span></td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>B.P.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, <abbr title="New York">N. Y.</abbr></td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Bos.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Boston Public Library.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Bro.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Brown University Library, Providence, <abbr title="Rhode Island">R. I.</abbr></td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Bry.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Bryson Library, Teachers College, New York.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Conn.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Conn.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Esx.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Evans.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">American Bibliography by <abbr title="Charles">Chas.</abbr> Evans, 1903.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Gen.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Library General Theological Seminary, New York.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Har.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Library of <a id="chg4"></a>Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Hild.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania by Chas. +R. Hildeburn, 1885.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>L.C.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>L.I.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, N. Y.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Lown.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature +by William Thomas Lowndes, London, 1869.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>New.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Newberry Library, Chicago, <abbr title="Illinois">Ill.</abbr></td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Nich.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Bibliography of Worcester (Mass.) by Chas. L. +Nichols, 1899.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>N.L.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Free Public Library, Newark, <abbr title="New Jersey">N. J.</abbr></td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>N.L.I.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">National Library of Ireland, Dublin.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>NR.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">indicates that no record of a copy has been found +by the compiler.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>N.Y.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">New York Public Library.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>N.Y.His.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">New York Historical Society, New York City.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>N.Y.S.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>O.P.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Private collection.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Penn.His.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Historical Society of Pennsylvania.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>P.L.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Peabody Library, Baltimore, <abbr title="Maryland">Md.</abbr></td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Peq.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Pequot Library, Southport, Conn.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>S.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Author’s collection.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Trum.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">List of Books printed in Connecticut, 1709–1800, +by James Hammond Trumbull, Acorn Club, Hartford, 1904.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>U.T.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Union Theological Seminary, New York.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Wat.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn.</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="tdl vlt"><i>Yale.</i></td> +<td class="tdh">Library of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.</td></tr> +</table> +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44"></span></p> +<p class="center">FRONTISPIECE.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp57" id="image044" style="max-width: 47.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image044.jpg" alt="Woodcut of the interior of a chapel. Watts is at the pulpit, congregants in the pews, and children kneeling in prayer in the foreground."> + <figcaption> + +<div class="poetry-container"> +<div class="poetry"> +<div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Lord</span>, how delightful ’tis to see</div> +<div class="verse indent0">A whole Assembly worship thee!</div> +<div class="verse indent0">At once they sing, at once they pray;</div> +<div class="verse indent0">They hear of Heav’n, and learn the Way.</div> +</div> +</div> + </figcaption> +</figure> +</div> +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45"></span></p> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="The_British_Editions"> +<i>The British Editions</i> + </h2> +</div> + + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in Easy Lan- | guage for +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts. | Out of the Mouth +of Babes and Sucklings thou hast perfected | Praise. <abbr title="Matthew Twenty-one">Matt. +<span class="allsmcap">XXI</span></abbr>: 16. | London: | Printed for M. Lawrence at the Angel +| in the Poultry. 1715. | <abbr title="pages">pp.</abbr> 72. 5⅞ × 3½; Full +leather. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, London, July 1902, for +£155. Now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. +Another copy was sold at Sotheby’s, March 1907, for £55.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 2nd edition. 1716. Only one copy +known.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 3rd edition. Printed by R. Ford at +the Angel in the Poultry. 1719. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, +April 1911. <abbr title="Morocco">Mor.</abbr> ex. <abbr title="One pound seven">£1-7</abbr>. Third edition advertised at +the back of The Psalms of David, etc., by I. Watts. 3rd +<abbr title="edition">ed.</abbr> London, John Clark and Rich. Ford. <abbr title="1722"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCC.XXII.</span></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. London: R. Ford. 1720. 4th edition. Calf. +12<sup>o</sup>. Copy offered by Maggs <abbr title="Brothers">Bros.</abbr>, London, 1909, <abbr title="Four pounds ten">£4-10</abbr>.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs. Edited by I. Cobbin, London, 1720. 12<sup>o</sup>. +<abbr title="Bibliographer's Manual"><i>Lown.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 5th edition. <abbr title="No Record"><i>NR.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 7th edition. 1726 (?). Advertised in +An Essay Toward the Encouragement of Charity Schools, +by I. Watts, London: John Clark and Richard Hett. 1728.</p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in easy language, for the +Use of | Children. | By I. Watts. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" alt="sideways section symbols"> | The Eighth +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46"></span>Edition. | London: Printed for Richard Ford, at the +An- | gel in the Poultry, near Stocks-Market, 1727. | pp. +<abbr title="Twenty"><span class="allsmcap">XX</span></abbr> + 52, 5¾ × 3¼, full calf. <abbr title="Author's collection"><i>S.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 9th edition. London: 1728. 12<sup>o</sup>. <abbr title="British Museum"><i>B.M.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 10th edition. London: R. Ford, near +Stocks-Market. 1729. Copy sold at Sotheran’s, April 1890, +<abbr title="One pound two">£1-2</abbr>; at Christie’s, June 1898, Mor. ex. <abbr title="gilt edges">g. e.</abbr>, <abbr title="One pound eight">£1-8</abbr>; at +Sotheby’s, <abbr title="February">Feb.</abbr> 1900, <abbr title="One pound sixteen">£1-16</abbr>; offered by Bull and Auvache, +London, <abbr title="two pounds twelve six">£2-12-6</abbr>.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 11th edition, 1731. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 12th edition. (?) London: R. Ford. +1733. 8<sup>o</sup>. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, June 1891. Mor. ex., +<abbr title="three pounds seven six">£3-7-6</abbr>. Copy sold in Hoe Collection, N. Y., April 1911, +<abbr title="Levant morocco gilt edges">Lev. mor. g. e.</abbr>, $15.00.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 13th edition, 1735 (?). <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 14th edition, 1737 (?). <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 15th edition, 1739 (?). Fifteenth edition +advertised at the back of The Art of Reading and +Writing English, 6th ed. London, 1740, published by R. +Hett and J. Brackstone at the Bible and Crown in the +Poultry.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 16th edition, with some additional +composures (a Slight Specimen of Moral Songs). London: +J. Brackstone, 1740. Small <abbr title="duodecimo">12 mo.</abbr> calf. Copy offered by +Bull and Auvache, London, 1905. 15/-.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 17th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 18th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 19th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 20th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. The twenty-first edition with some +additional composures, 1752. Copy sold at Hodgson’s, +Feb. 1905, Mor. ex. g. e., 8<sup>o</sup>, <abbr title="two pounds two">£2-2</abbr>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47"></span></p> + +<p>Works of Isaac Watts. Edited by D. Jennings and P. +Doddridge. London: 1753. 6 <abbr title="volumes">vols.</abbr> <abbr title="quarto">4<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <abbr title="Volume">Vol.</abbr> 4 contains the +Divine Songs, for the use of Children. <abbr title="Boston Athenæum"><i>B.A.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 22nd edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. <a id="chg1"></a>23rd edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 24th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">D.D.</abbr> | +<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | The +Twenty-fifth Edition. | London: | Printed for T. Longman, +F. Buckland, | and W. Fenner, in Paternoster-row; | J. +Waugh, in <a id="chg2"></a>Lombard-street; E. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. +Field, in Cheap- | side. <abbr title="1761"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCC.LXI.</span></abbr> | pp. <abbr title="12">xii</abbr> + 60, 5¾ × 3¼, +full calf. George <abbr title="Two">II</abbr> license facing title. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. 26th edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | The +Twenty-seventh Edition. | London: | Printed for J. Longman; +and J. Buck- | land, in Pater-noster-row; J. Waugh, +| in Lombard-Street; E. and C. Dilly, in the | Poultry; and +T. Field, in Cheapside. | <abbr title="1765"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCC.LXV.</span></abbr> | pp. <abbr title="ten">x</abbr> + 60, 5½ × 3⅛, +full calf. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>I. Watts’ Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language +for the Use of Children. London (176–), <abbr title="eighteenmo">18<sup>o</sup></abbr>, Dutch boards. +Quaint cuts. Offered by Poynder, Reading, 1910, 15/-.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | for the +Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: | +Printed for H. Woodfall; J. Buckland; | J. and F. Rivington; +T. Longman; | W. Fenner; T. Field and | E. and C. +Dilly. | <abbr title="1769"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCC.LXIX.</span></abbr> <abbr title="pages twlve">pp. xii</abbr> + 58, 5⅝ × 3⅜. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Caniadau Dwyfol (Divine Songs) Caerfyrddin, 1771. pp. +45, 12<sup>o</sup>, in Welsh. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48"></span> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. and F. +Rivington, etc. 1772. pp. 60, 5¾ × 3¼, George <abbr title="Two">II</abbr> license +facing title. <abbr title="Bryson Library"><i>Bry.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols">| London: +| Printed for J. Buckland; J. and F. Rivington; | T. +Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; and | E. and C. Dilly. | <abbr title="1773"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXIII.</span></abbr> +| pp. xii + 58, 6 × 3½, boards. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. London: J. Buckland. 1774. <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 58, +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the Use of Children. | By I. Watts, <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">D. D.</abbr> | London: J. +Buckland; J. and F. Rivington, etc. <abbr title="1775"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXV.</span></abbr> George <abbr title="Two">II</abbr> +license facing title. <i>B.M.</i>, <abbr title="New York"><i>N. Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language For the Use +of Children. Salisbury, 1776. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language For the Use +of Children. By I. Watts, D.D. London: Printed in the +year 1776. 12<sup>o</sup>. No printer’s or publisher’s name. Offered +by Murray’s, Leicester, 1914, <abbr title="Two pounds ten">£2-10</abbr>.</p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. |<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: +| Printed for J. Buckland; J.F. and C. Rivington; +T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; | and E. and C. Dilly. +| <abbr title="1777"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXVII.</span></abbr> | <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 60, 5⅜ × 3-3/16. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the Use of | Children | with Additions | by I. Watts, D.D. +| London: | Printed, and sold by all the Booksellers +in | Town and Country. | <abbr title="1779"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXIX.</span></abbr> | pp. 58, 5½ × 3½, +Dutch boards, half sheep. <i>S.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49"></span> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. |<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: +| Printed for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. Rivington; | T. +Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; | and C. Dilly. | <abbr title="1780"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXX.</span></abbr> +| <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 58, 5¾ × 3⅛, boards. George <abbr title="Two">II</abbr> license +facing title. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Spiritual Lessons for Children to read, etc. Chiefly selected +from the Divine Songs of Dr. Watts. 1780 (?). +<abbr title="32MO">32<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Horæ Lyricæ | Poems | Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, | etc. +By I. Watts. Pages 323–370 contain the Divine Songs. +6 × 3¾. No publisher, place or date. 1780 (?). <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the use of | Children. | By I. Watts, <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">D. D.</abbr> |<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: +| Printed and sold by T. Moore, Pater-Noster Row | 1782. +| pp. 60, 5 × 3⅜.</p> + +<p>The Poetical Works | of | Isaac Watts, D.D. | in seven +volumes | with the life of the Author. | <abbr title="Volume Seven">Vol. VII</abbr> | Edinburgh: +| At the Apollo Press, by the Martins | Anno 1782. +| Pages 42–84 contain the Divine Songs. 5 × 3. <abbr title="Harvard Library"><i>Har.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Hymns and Moral Songs for the use of Children. +Revised and Altered, etc. By a Lady. London: +Printed by permission, etc. 1785 (?). First edition, <i>NR.</i> +See 2nd ed., 1787; 3rd ed., 1791.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. S. Harward, Glocester, 1785. <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 58. 12<sup>o</sup>. +<i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children, Coventry, 1787 (?), +12<sup>o</sup>. <abbr title="Bodleian Library"><i>Bod.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. |<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols">| London: +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50"></span>J. Buckland; J. F. | and C. Rivington; T. Longman; +T. Field; | and C. Dilly. | <abbr title="1787"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXXVII.</span></abbr> | <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 60, +5⅞ × 3½. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s | Hymns | and | Moral Songs | for the use +of | Children, | Revised and Altered. | To which are added, +Prayers | for the use of | Children. | By a Lady. | The +Second Edition. | Train up a child in the way, etc. | +London: | Printed by permission of the Proprietors, | for +J. Johnson, <abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> 72, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Paul’s | Church-yard. <abbr title="1787"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXXVII.</span></abbr> +| <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 70, 5⅝ × 3⅜. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children, 1788. Comment on Watts’ +Divine Songs by Mrs. Trimmer. 1789. 12<sup>o</sup>. Copy in old +<abbr title="English">Eng.</abbr> Mor. Gold tooled, g. e. With portrait added, sold +at Sotheby’s, May 1892, £4.</p> + +<p>Divine | Songs, | Attempted in | Easy Language, | for +the use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Tamworth: +| Printed and sold by B. Shelton. | Price Six-Pence. +<abbr title="1789"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCLXXXIX.</span></abbr> | pp. 64, 7½ × 3¼, marbled boards, half +leather. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the use +of Children. To which is added Poems, instructive and +entertaining, etc. Kidderminster: 1790 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs for children. Revised +and altered so as to render them of general use. To +which are added a short Catechism and Prayers. London. +J. Johnson. No. 72, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Paul’s Church-yard. 1790 (?). 1st +ed. <i>NR.</i> See 2nd ed. 1792 (?); 3rd ed. 1794; 4th ed. 1803.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, | set to Music in an | Easy and +Familiar Stile | for one, two, three, & four voices, | by | +Dr. Jackson, | Opr. 1st | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London. Printed by +Muzio, Clementi & <abbr title="Company">Co.</abbr> | No. 26, Cheapside and Tottenham +Court Road | where may be had | “Ponder my Words,” +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51"></span>an Anthem and three | canons for three Voices composed +for the use | of Country Churches. | 1790 (?). Engraved +title-page. <abbr title="Newberry Library"><i>New.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, | set to Music in an | Easy and +familiar Stile | for one, two, three, & four voices | by Dr. +Jackson | Opr. 1st | London: Printed for the Author, +No. 40, | great Prescot Street Goodmans Fields | where +may be had | “Ponder my Words” an Anthem and three | +Canons for three Voices composed for the use | of Country +Churches. Price <abbr title="two shillings">2s.</abbr> | 1790 (?). <abbr title="pages four">pp. iv</abbr> + 44, 10¼ × 7, marbled +paper covers. Engraved throughout. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine songs attempted in Easy Language for the use +of Children. Gainsborough: 1790 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. +Rivington; T. Longman; T. Field; and C. Dilly. 1790. +12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <abbr title="Yale Library"><i>Yale.</i></abbr></p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 1st edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 2nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 3rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 4th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 5th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 7th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 8th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 9th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 10th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 11th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 12th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 13th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 14th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 15th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 16th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 17th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Belfast, 18th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52"></span> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. 19th edition. Belfast: Printed by W. Magee. +<abbr title="1791"><span class="allsmcap">M,DCC,XCI.</span></abbr> <abbr title="pages six">pp. vi</abbr> + 41. Small 8<sup>o</sup>. <abbr title="Boston Public Library"><i>Bos.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Hymns and Moral Songs for the use of Children; +Revised and Altered by a Lady (E.Y.): to which +are added Prayers.... Third edition. London, 1791. 12<sup>o</sup>. +<i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Derby: +| John Drewry | <abbr title="1792"><span class="allsmcap">M,DCC,XCII.</span></abbr> | Price Six-pence, bound. +| pp. 72, 6¼ × 3¾, boards, half leather. <i>Bod.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Revised +and altered so as to render them of general use. To which +are added, etc. London: J. Johnson 1792 (?). 2nd ed. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs for Children: Revised +and Altered so as to render them of general use. To +which are added a short Catechism and Prayers. Third +Edition. 1794. London: Printed by permission of the +Proprietors. For J. Johnson. No. 72, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Paul’s Church-yard +<abbr title="Square">Sq.</abbr> 18<sup>o</sup> calf, with a fine series of wood-cuts. Offered +by Burman, Alnwick, <abbr title="August">Aug.</abbr> 1914, £2.10.</p> + +<p>Poetical works of Isaac Watts, to which is prefixed the +life of the author (by R. Anderson) Edinburgh: 1794. 8<sup>o</sup>; +contains the Divine and Moral Songs. <abbr title="Peabody Library"><i>P.L.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | for the +use of | children | by I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: | +Printed for J. Longman, C. Dilly, and F. and C. Rivington. +<abbr title="1796"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCXCVI.</span></abbr> <abbr title="pages twelve">pp. xii</abbr> + 60. Preliminary leaf bears notice of +purchase of copyrights by Buckland, Waugh, etc. Copy +offered by Gorfin, London, <abbr title="September"><abbr title="September">Sept.</abbr></abbr> 1914, 7/6.</p> + +<p>Watts’s Hymns for Children, complete with prayers. +1796 (?). Price 1½<abbr title="pence">d</abbr>, or 6/- per 100. Offered on the last +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_53"></span>leaf of The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. Marshall, London, +January 1796. Cheap Repository and S. Hazard, Bath.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. London, 1799. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs.... To which are added the Principles of +the Christian Religion ... by Philip Doddridge, also a collection +of instructive and entertaining poems. Kidderminster. +1800 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs. Alnwick and Glasgow. 1800 (?). +Woodcuts. Offered by Tregaskis, London, July 1916.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the +Use of | Children | By I. Watts, D.D. | Adorned with +Thirty-seven elegant Cuts | To which is added | The Beggar’s +Petition | and the | Universal Prayer. | London, Gower +& Pennell, Kidderminster. | 1800 (?). pp. 71, 5⅝ × 3¾, +half leather. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. Society for +Promoting Christian Knowledge. London. 1800. 12<sup>o</sup>. +<i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the +| Use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | To which +are added, | The Beggar’s Petition, Prayers, etc. | Wellington: +| Printed and sold by J. Bishop. | Sold also by all +Booksellers in Town and Country. | Price six pence. | +1800 (?). pp. 48, 6⅛ × 3⅞. Frontispiece of church interior +with verse beneath. Paper covers. Title in oval wreath on +front cover. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. Coventry, +1800 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language. Bath, +1800 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_54"></span> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the +use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Gainsborough +| Printed by H. Mosley, Market Place. | Price six pence. | +1801 (?). pp. 72, 5¼ × 2¾, Dutch boards, gilt. Frontispiece +and numerous cuts in text. Cuts signed “W.G.” (William +Green?); that on page 23 signed “W.G. Hull 1801.” <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. Mission Press: Serampore. 1801. pp. 88, <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. +<i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children by Isaac Watts. York: <abbr title="Edward">Edw.</abbr> +Peck. Lower Ousegate. 1802 (?). Offered on the last leaf +of The Magic Lantern, York, <abbr title="Edward">Edw.</abbr> Peck, Lower Ousegate. +1802.</p> + +<p>The | Poetical Works | of | Isaac Watts, D.D. | in seven +volumes. London: Apollo Press. George Cawthorn. No. +132, Strand. 1802. 5 × 3. <abbr title="Volume Seven">Vol. VII</abbr>, pp. 42–84, contains the +Divine Songs. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +London. | Printed and Sold by Darton and Harvey, | +Grace Church Street | 1802. | Price six pence. | pp. 60, +4⅝ × 3¼, marbled paper. Eighteen half page copperplate +illustrations in the text. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs for Children.... To +which are added a short Catechism and Prayers. Fourth +edition. London: J. Johnson. 1803. <abbr title="pages nine"> pp. ix</abbr> + 96, 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. York, 1804. +Dutch boards. Wood-cuts. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, <abbr title="January">Jan.</abbr> +11, 1899.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | for the +use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: +Printed for F. & C. Rivington; J. Scatcherd; | Longman, +Hurst, Rees and Orme; | and G. Mowman; | By Bye and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_55"></span>Low, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> John’s Square. Clerkenwell. | 1805. | pp. 75, +5½ × 3¼. Item No. 5 of <abbr title="Volume Twelve">Vol. XII</abbr> of a set issued by the +Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. <i>B.M.</i>, <abbr title="Library General"><i>Gen.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted | in Easy Language | For | +The Use | of | Children | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Ornamented +with cuts. | A new edition. | London: | Printed for +Houlston and Son, | 65, Paternoster Row, and at Wellington, +Salop. | Price six pence. | 1805 (?). pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3, boards. +Frontispiece of the interior of a church; cut at the head of +each song. Front cover bears title in decorative border.</p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs, 1805 (?), 32<sup>o</sup>, without cuts, price 2d; +advertised on rear cover of above item.</p> + +<p>Select Songs for Children.... By Isaac Watts, the Rev. +Mr. Foxton and other eminent divines. Dublin: J. Gough. +1st ed. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<ul> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 2nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 3rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 4th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 5th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 7th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 8th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Select Songs for Children, Dublin, 9th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<p>Select Songs for Children.... By Isaac Watts, the Rev. +Mr. Foxton and other eminent divines.... Tenth edition +... enlarged. Dublin: J. Gough. 1806. pp. 108. 12<sup>o</sup>. +<i>B.M.</i> See 12th ed. 1810.</p> + +<p>The | Poetical Works | of | Isaac Watts, D.D. | Collated +by <abbr title="Thomas">Thos.</abbr> Park, <abbr title="Esquire">Esq.</abbr>, <abbr title="Fellow Society of Antiquaries">F.S.A.</abbr> London: Whittingham. 1807. +<abbr title="Volume Two">Vol. II</abbr>, pp. 169–211, contains “Songs | Divine and Moral +| Book <abbr title="Four">IV</abbr>” | 5 × 3. Copperplate frontispiece by Stothard, +“Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.” <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_56"></span> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. +Vol. XII. 1807. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the +Use of | Children | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Printed for +F. and C. Rivington; J. Scatcherd | and Letterman; Longman, +Hurst, Rees and | Orme; and J. Mowman; | By Law +and Gilbert, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> John’s Square, Clerkenwell. | 1808. | pp. +72, 5⅜ × 3¼. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine Songs, in a small size and type. To +which is added, The Principles of the Christian Religion, +Doddridge. 6<abbr title="pence">d.</abbr> 1808 (?). Offered on back leaf of previous +item.</p> + +<p>Songs Divine and Moral. A new edition revised by J. +Owen. London, 1809. <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs for the Use of Children, etc. Richmond: +T. Bowman. 1810 (?). pp. 35. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Select songs for Children. By I. Watts, D.D., the Rev. +Mr. Foxton and other eminent Divines. Dublin: John +Gough. 11th ed. <i>N.R.</i></p> + +<p>Select | Songs | for | Children | in three parts | .... | +By I. Watts, D.D., the Rev. Mr. Fox- | ton, and other +eminent Divines. | .... | The Twelfth Edition | Corrected +and Enlarged. | Dublin: Printed by John Gough, No. 20, +Meath-Street. | 1810 | Price 8<abbr title="pence">d</abbr>, half bound. | pp. 108, +5⅛ × 3¼. Half sheep. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s Divine Songs. Published May 24, 1810, by R. +Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap. Broadside 19 × 15 (School +piece), eight copperplate illustrations, carefully hand-colored. +<i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs. London, 1810. Post 8<sup>o</sup>. Copy sold in +Daly sale, <abbr title="American">Amer.</abbr> Art Galleries, March 1900, $5.50. Mor. +g. e., portrait by Bartolozzi inserted.</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_57"></span> + +<p>Divine Songs, attempted in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. Adorned with appropriate wood-cuts by T. +Bewick. York: Thomas Wilson and Son, 1810. pp. 64. +5 × 2½. <i>Bry.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. York: R. Burdikin. 12<sup>o</sup>, illustrated. +1810 (?). Offered by Tregaskis, London, Aug. 1912.</p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs for Children. Edinburgh: Oliver +and Boyd. Tweeddale Court. With neat embellishments. +6<abbr title="pence"><sup>d</sup></abbr>. 1810 (?). pp. 36, 5½ × 3½. Offered at back of “A +Budget of Juvenile Stories for Children.” Edinburgh. Oliver +and Boyd.</p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs | In Easy & Pleasing Language +| For the Instruction of Children | By Isaac Watts, +D.D. | Illustrated with forty fine cuts | London: Edward +Lacey, 76, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Paul’s Churchyard. | And all booksellers. | +1810 (?). pp. 70, 5¼ × 3¼, boards. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for the use of Children. London: +W. Darton, 1812. pp. 70, 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy Language for the use of +children. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; J. +Scatcherd and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme +and Brown; and J. Mowman. 1812. <i>Yale.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language, with appropriate +wood-cuts by T. Bewick of New Castle. York: +T. Wilson. 1812. 12<sup>o</sup>. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, February +1906, <abbr title="Two pounds two">£2-2</abbr>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s | Hymns for Children, | Revised and Altered, +| so as to render them of general use: | To which are now +added | Hymns | And other religious poetry | For Children, +| By Dr. Doddridge, &c. | A new edition. | Exeter: +| Printed and Sold by T. Besley, | Sold also by J. Johnson +and Co., London; | P. Hedgeland, Exeter; Rees and Curtis, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58"></span>Plymouth; and J. Belcher, | Birmingham. | 1812. | pp. +52, 6⅜ × 3⅞. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Works of Isaac Watts. London: 1812–13. 9 <abbr title="volumes">vols.</abbr> 8<sup>o</sup>. +Vol. 9 contains the Divine Songs for Children. <abbr title="Bates Hall"><i>B.H.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s | Divine Songs, | For | Children. | Banbury: +| Printed and Sold by J. G. Rusher, | Bridge-Street. | +Price One penny. | 1814 (?). pp. 16, numbered 2–18. +3½ × 2¾. Blue paper <a id="chg5"></a>wrappers. Frontispiece on inside +front cover. Cuts on outside front and back covers. Copy +(with another Vol., Moral Songs) sold at Bangs, N. Y., May +1900, $4.50. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bos.</i>, <i>Bod.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s | Moral Songs, | For | Children. | Banbury: +| Printed and sold by J. Rusher, | Bridge-Street. | Price +One Penny. | 1814 (?). pp. 16, numbered 2–18. 3½ × 2¾. +Gray paper wrappers. Frontispiece on inside front cover. +Cuts on outside front and back covers. <i>S.</i> See note on +previous item.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs in easy language, etc. Glasgow: J. Lumsden +and Son. 1814. pp. 30, 32<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>An analysis of Dr. Watts’s Hymns for Children, upon +the interrogative or catechetical plan. For the use of +schools. Liverpool: Published by H. Greenough. 1814. +<i>Yale.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. With the Beggar’s +Petition. London. Ilminster. 1814 (?). <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs in Easy Language for the Use of Children. +By I. Watts. Edinburgh: G. Ross. 1814 (?). Offered by +Burman, Alnwick, <abbr title="September"><abbr title="September">Sept.</abbr></abbr> 1912.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for Children. +Wellington: Houlston, 1815 (?), cuts. Offered by Burman, +Alnwick, July 1912, 2/-.</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59"></span> + +<p>Caniadau Duwiol (Divine Songs) Crefyddol: 1815 (?). +In Welsh. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language +| For the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | +<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Beverley: Printed by M. Turner, | For Messrs. +Crosby and Co., London; | G. Turner, Hull; and M. Turner, +Beverley. | 1815. | pp. 54, 5⅜ × 3½, half sheep, frontispiece +and cuts in text. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs, | for | Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Stereotype edition. | London: | Printed for +E. Cox and Son, | <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Thomas’s Street, Borough. | 1815. | +pp. 64, 4 × 2½, full sheep. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, etc. London: 1816. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Derby: R. Miller. 1816. 8<sup>o</sup>. +Engraving above each song. Offered by Burman, Alnwick, +July 1912.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use +of Children. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington. +1818. <i>Yale.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | Attempted | in Easy Language +| For The | Use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | +London: | Printed and sold by J. Innes, 61, Wells <abbr title="Street">St.</abbr> | +Oxford Street; | and may be had at all booksellers. | Price +Sixpence. | 1820 (?). pp. 36, 5½ × 3½, frontispiece; stiff +paper covers. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>O.P.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children, Reading: J. Rusher. 1820 (?). +pp. 48, <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs in easy language, for Children. London: +J. Evans. 1820 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s Divine Songs. Glasgow. 1820 (?). <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, Attempted in easy language +for the use of Children. London: J. Catnach. 1820 (?). +pp. 12, 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs.... With engravings. Devizes: +J. Harrison. 1820 (?). pp. 48, 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. Devizes. 1820 (?). +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>A | Specimen | of | Moral Songs | Adapted to | The +Capacities of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | Chelmsford: +| Printed and sold by I. Marsden. | Price one Penny. | +1820 (?). pp. 16, 4⅜ × 2⅝, gray paper covers. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For the | Use of Children. +| By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: | William Darton, +58, Holborn-Hill. | Opposite Ely Place. | 1821. | Price six +pence. | pp. 72, 5⅝ × 3¼; frontispiece and numerous +large cuts in text, including a hanging to illustrate moral +song No. 3, “The Thief.” <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine & Moral | Songs, | in easy language. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | A New Edition, | Embellished with beautiful +engravings, | from new designs. | London: | Printed +for Baldwin, Cradock, and Jay, | Paternoster Row. | 1821. +| Price six-pence. | pp. 72, 4⅝ × 3, paper covers. Frontispiece +and cut on title; also 36 cuts in text.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington. +1821. <i>Yale.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London. 1822 (?). +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs in Easy Language for the Use +of Children. R. Franly. 1823. 12<sup>o</sup>, paper covers. Folding +colored frontispiece in six sections. Copy sold at Sotheby’s, +Feb. 1911, <abbr title="Two pounds five">£2-5</abbr>.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, | Attempted in | Easy Language, | By I. +Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: Sold by C. S. Arnold, | +Tavistock-Street, Covent Garden. | 1825. | Price six pence. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61"></span>| pp. 72, 5½ × 3⅜, frontispiece and cuts in text, stiff +paper covers, border and cut on cover. <i>Bod.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for children. Adorned with 38 <a id="chg6"></a>elegant +cuts, to which is added the Beggar’s Petition and Universal +Prayer. London, 1825. Small pott 8<sup>o</sup> half leather. Copy +offered by Gorfin, London, <abbr title="October">Oct.</abbr> 1914.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. Epping, 1825 (?). +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs | for | Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | with | Brief notes appended to each hymn, +| by | A minister of the gospel. | Birmingham: | Printed +for Thomas Groom, | Islington Row. | 1825 (?). pp. 54, +5⅝ × 3⅝, stiff paper covers. Title on cover in mortised +cut, apparently by Bewick. <i>Yale</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, | Divine and Moral | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | To +which is added | A memoir of the Author. | Embellished +with sixty engravings on wood | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: | Published +by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers’ Hall Court, +Ludgate Street; | J. Johnson, Brook Street, Holborn; +and sold by all booksellers. | 1826. | pp. iv + vi + vi + 88, +7½ × 3¾, boards. Frontispiece portrait and cut at head +of each song. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Canan Duwiol (Divine Songs) Llundain: 1826. In +Welsh. <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs, | Attempted in Easy Language, +| for the | Use of Children: | By I. Watts, D.D. | +Derby: | Printed for and by | Thomas Richardson, Friar-Gate; +| and for | Hurst, Chance and Co., | 65 <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Paul’s +Church-yard, London. | 1827. | pp. 70, 5½ × 3½, picture +boards. Frontispiece and small wood-cuts in text. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted In | Easy Language | For +the use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | Adorned with +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_62"></span>thirty-eight elegant cuts. | To which is added, | The Beggar’s +Petition, and the Universal Prayer. | London: | +Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside. | 1828. | pp. 72, 5¼ × 3½, +boards, half leather; frontispiece and numerous cuts in +text. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>An Explanation of Dr. Watt’s Hymns for Children, in +question and answer. By a Lady. (Mrs. Cockle, with the +text). London: First edition. <i>NR.</i> See 3rd ed. 1829; +4th ed. 1836.</p> + +<p>An Explanation of Dr. Watt’s Hymns for Children, in +question, etc. Second edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>An Explanation of Dr. Watt’s Hymns for Children, in +question and answer. By a Lady. (Mrs. Cockle, with the +text). Third edition: London. 1829. 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Derby, 1830 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s | Divine Songs, | attempted in | Easy Language +| For the Use of Children. | John and Charles Mozley. | +Derby: | Price One Penny. | 1830 (?). pp. 32, 4⅛ × 2⅝, +paper covers, cut on front cover, frontispiece, and vignette +on title. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s | Divine Songs, | attempted in | Easy Language +| For the Use of Children. | London: John and Charles +Mozley, | 6, Paternoster Row. | Price One penny. | 1830 (?). +pp. 32, 4⅛ × 2⅝, paper covers, cut on front cover, small +frontispiece, and vignette on title. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs. Offered on back of “The English +Primer” published by John and Charles Mozley, Derby +and Paternoster Row, London. 1830 (?); price <abbr title="one pence">1<sup>d</sup></abbr> [see +item above], <abbr title="two pence">2<sup>d</sup></abbr> and <abbr title="six pence">6<sup>d</sup></abbr> each.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs in Easy Language. Religious +Tract Society, London: 1830 (?). The First Series, Tracts +etc. No. 5, 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: 1830. 18<sup>o</sup>. 2/0. +<i>Lown.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1830 (?). +Printed from copper plates. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, | In | Easy Language | For | Children. | +By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: | Printed and Sold by +| J. Evans, | 42, Long Lane, West Smithfield. | Price six-pence. +| 1830 (?). pp. 68, 5¼ × 3½, picture boards. Frontispiece +and crude cuts in text. Vignette on title by Bewick. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral, For the Use of Children, by +Isaac Watts. 1832. 12<sup>o</sup>, boards. Illustrated by Stothard. +Lowndes says “London: Tilt, <abbr title="foolscap">fcp.</abbr> 8<sup>o</sup> 1832.” Copy offered +by Hollings, London, 1910, 2/-.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs, improved. With +an appendix, etc. Newcastle. 1832. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i> See +2nd ed. 1834; 3rd ed. 1839.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs improved ... with +an appendix. By John Scott. The second edition, etc. +Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1834. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs For Children. | By Isaac Watts, +D.D. | London: | Religious Tract Society; | Instituted +1799; | Sold at the Depository, 56, Paternoster Row; and +| By the booksellers. | 1834. | pp. 72, 5½ × 3½, half +leather. Vignette on title and numerous excellent wood-cuts +in text. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. Illustrated by +Anecdotes and Reflections by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin. +London: Dean and Son. 1st edition. <i>NR.</i> See 1835 (?).</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s | Divine and Moral Songs, | for | Children. | +Illustrated by Anecdotes and Reflections by the Rev. Ingram +Cobbin, <abbr title="Master of Arts">M.A.</abbr> | Embellished with beautiful wood-cuts. | +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_64"></span>New edition, | London: | Dean and Son, Ludgate Hill. +<abbr title="East Central">E.C.</abbr> | 1835 (?). pp. 136, 5½ × 3½, green cloth. <i>Bos.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Llundain. 1836. <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. In +Welsh. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>An Explanation of Dr. Watts’ Hymns for Children, in +question and answer. By a Lady. (Mrs. Cockle, with the +text). Fourth edition. London: 1836. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. London: Religious +Tract Society. 1837, small 8<sup>o</sup>, illustrated, half calf. +Offered by Gorfin, London, <abbr title="October">Oct.</abbr> 1914.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children. Edited by J. G. Pike. London: +Thomas Richardson and Son, 26, Paternoster Row. +1837 (?). Offered on back of Mavor’s Improved Spelling +Book. London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 26, Paternoster +Row, <abbr title="at 6 pence, 3 pence, 2 pence and 1 pence">@ 6<sup>d</sup>, 3<sup>d</sup>, 2<sup>d</sup>, and 1<sup>d</sup></abbr> each.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. In “Hymns, +Original and Selected, by John Radcliffe, 1838.” <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs.... Improved; with +a large appendix, by J. Scott. Now an almost entirely new +work. Third edition, etc. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1839. +12<sup>o</sup>. <i>Lown.</i>, <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: Houlson, 1839. <abbr title="Foolscap">Fcp</abbr> +8<sup>o</sup>, plates, 2/6. <i>Lown.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, new edition. To which are +added prayers, etc. London: 1840 (?). <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. Frontispiece +and numerous wood-cuts. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the +Use of Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | New edition. +| London: | Printed for the | Society for promoting +Christian Knowledge; | Sold at the Depository, | Great +Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; | and by all booksellers. | +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_65"></span>[55] 1840. | pp. 68, 5⅜ × 3½, half leather, picture +boards. Society’s seal on title page. 8 wood-cuts in +text. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. London: The +Religious Tract Society. 1841. Illustrated. <i>Yale.</i></p> + +<p>March’s | Library | of Instruction and Amusement. | +Watts’ | Divine and Moral | Songs | -9- | Price six-pence +| Printed and Published by J. March | 5, Great Charlotte +Street, Blackfriars’ Road. | 1844 (?). pp. 16, 9½ × 6, +printed on one side of leaves only. Title on outside front +cover; 21 carefully colored wood-cuts. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Set to music by Mrs. Brent. +London; 1846 (?). Royal 8<sup>o</sup>. 1st ed. (?). <i>Bod.</i> (See 1848.)</p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the +Use of Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: +| Printed for | The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge +| Sold at the Depository, | Great Queen Street, +Lincoln’s Inn-Fields, and 4 Royal Exchange; | and by all +booksellers. | [55] 1847. | pp. 72, 5½ × 3½, red silk +boards. Seal of Society on title page. Many excellent +wood-cuts; some signed “Whimper.” <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ | Divine & Moral Songs, | Set to Music, | +And adapted expressly for the use | of children. | By | Mrs. +Brent. | London. | Sold by Houlston & Stoneman. | Paternoster +Row; | & other Booksellers. | 1848. | Ent. <abbr title="Stationer's">Sta.</abbr> +Hall. | pp. 80, 10¼ × 7. From engraved plates throughout. +<i>Bod.</i>, <i>Lown.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children. +| By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | With thirty illustrations | Drawn +on the wood by C. W. Cope, <abbr title="Royal Academy of Arts">A.R.A.</abbr> | and | Engraved by +John Thompson. | London: | John Van Voorst, Paternoster +Row. | <abbr title="1848"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCCXLVIII.</span></abbr> | pp. 94, 8½ × 6¼, paper covered +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_66"></span>boards. L.p. uncut. First issue carrying the “death print” +on page 28. Later issue, same date, had the death print +replaced by the wood-cut from page 74. First issue, <i>B.M.</i> +Later issue, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children. | +By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | With thirty illustrations | Drawn +on the wood by C. W. Cope, <abbr title="Royal Academy of Arts">A.R.A.</abbr>, | and | Engraved by +John Thompson. | London: | John Van Voorst, | Paternoster +Row. | <abbr title="1848"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCCXLVIII.</span></abbr> | pp. 94 + 4 <abbr title="advertisement">adv.</abbr> 8⅛ × 5½, +cloth, <abbr title="gilt edges">g.e.</abbr> Small paper edition of preceding item. <i>B.M.</i>, +<i>Bod.</i>, <abbr title="American Antiquarian"><i>A.A.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: 1848. 18<sup>o</sup>, ⅙. +<i>Lown.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: (Bath printed) 1849. +<abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. Printed in phonetic characters. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1849, +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children | +By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | with thirty illustrations | Drawn +on the wood by C. W. Cope, <abbr title="Royal Academy of Arts">A.R.A.</abbr>, | and | Engraved by +John Thompson. | London: | John Van Voorst, Paternoster +Row. | <abbr title="1850"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCCCL.</span></abbr> | pp. 94 + 8 of <abbr title="advertisement">adv.</abbr>, cloth, 8⅛ × 5½.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in Easy Language | For the +Use of Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | London: +| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; | Sold at +the Depositories; | 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn +Fields; | 4, Royal Exchange; 16, Hanover Street, Hanover +Square; | And by All Booksellers. | 1850 (?). No. 55. | pp. +72, 5½ × 3½. Frontispiece and numerous wood-cuts. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1852. +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_67"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs | for | Children. | by the | Rev. +Isaac Watts, D.D. | Illustrated by anecdotes and reflections, +| by the | Rev. Ingram Cobbin, <abbr title="<Master of Arts">M.A.</abbr> | Embellished with +beautiful wood-cuts. | London: | Arthur Hall, Virtue and +Co., | 25, Paternoster Row, | and all booksellers. | 1852. | +pp. 136 + 18 of <abbr title="advertisement">adv.</abbr>, 5½ × 3½, cloth with gold lettering. +See 1835. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>New and revised edition of Dr. Watts’s Divine and +Moral Songs ... by J. G. C. Fussell. London: 1852. 18<sup>o</sup>. +<i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs. London: 1854(?). 32<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Twenty-eight Divine Songs for the use of Children. +Dublin: 1855 (?). <abbr title="48MO">48<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Low, London: 1855. 12<sup>o</sup>, +printed on cloth. <i>Lown.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. Edinburgh: 1855 (?). +12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: Birmingham: 1855 (?). +32<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: 1856. 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Warde and Locke. London: +1857. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Lown.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1857. +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Edinburgh and New York. +1857. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs. | For | Children | By the | +<abbr title="Reverend">Rev<sup>d</sup></abbr> Isaac Watts, D.D. | London. | George Routledge & +Co., Farrington <abbr title="Street">St.</abbr> | 1860 (?). Designed title with vignette +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_68"></span>of Dr. Watts. Frontispiece and numerous wood engravings +in text, all by Dalziel. pp. 96, 6⅜ × 3¾. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Same as above except printed +throughout on cloth. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs. London: 1860 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Moral Songs and Hymns. Illustrated by ten beautiful +coloured engravings. (On cards). 1861 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. F. Goodchilds’ +Little Library. 1861 (?). 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Religious Tract Society. +London: 1861. 12<sup>o</sup>, colored plates. <i>Lown.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs.... The music composed and +adapted for Children’s voices. By E. Thorne. London: +1864. 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i> See 1870 (?).</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs for Children. | By Isaac Watts, +D.D. | London: Religious Tract Society; | Instituted 1799 +| Sold at the depository, 56, Paternoster Row, and 65, <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> +Paul’s Church-yard; | and by the Booksellers. | 1865 (?). +pp. 72, 5½ × 3⅜, half leather. Illustrated with excellent +wood engravings, some of the tailpieces after Bewick. <abbr title="Union Theological"><i>U.T.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | Children | By Isaac +Watts, <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">D. D.</abbr> | London: | Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. +| 1866. | pp. 116, 7¾ × 5½. Numerous wood engravings +in the text by various artists. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | Children, | By | Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Illustrated | London: | George Routledge & +Sons. | 1866 (?). pp. 116, 7¾ × 5⅝, designed title page; +frontispiece wood-engraved portrait of Dr. Watts by Scott. +Wood-cut illustrations and decorations on each page by +Scott, Kennedy, Allen, etc. Probably from same plates as +item above. <i>Bod.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_69"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Leiden. 1866 (?). 12<sup>o</sup>. In +Dutch. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs | For | Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Illustrated in the | New Graphotype Engraving +Process. | by W. Holman Hunt, | W. Cave Thomas, +J. D. Watson, G. Du Maurier, T. Morten, C. Green, | +H. K. Brown, Marcus Stone, H. Anelay, Florence Claxton, +| M. E. Edwards, etc. etc. | Under the superintendence of +| H. Fitzcook. | London: | James Nisbet and Co., | Berners +Street. | 1867 (?). <abbr title="pages eight">pp. viii</abbr> + 76, 10¾ × 8½, cloth, g. e. Frontispiece +portrait. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i>, <i>S.</i> The largest size found.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For +the Use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. |<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Published +by John and Charles Mozley, Derby; | and Paternoster Row, +London. | 1867 | pp. 72, 5½ × 3½, picture boards, half +leather. Frontispiece, vignette on title and cut at head of +each song. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. (With coloured engravings). +London, Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons (Printed 1867). +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine & Moral | Songs for Children. | By Dr. Watts. | +London: | S. W. Partridge and Co., 9 Paternoster Row | +1867 (?). pp. 80, 5½ × 4¼, cloth. Decorated page borders +and profusely illustrated with excellent wood engravings, +signed “W. Cheshire”. <i>B.M.</i>, <abbr title="Union Theological"><i>U.T.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs (With illustrations). London: +Religious Tract Society. 1869 (?). 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs.... The music composed by +E. Thorne. London: 1870 (?). 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Hymnyn ny Arraneyn Mayllee, son Paitchyn. Liorish +I. Watts. Peel: W. K. Palmer, printer. Michael Street. +pp. 30, 12<sup>o</sup>. 1870 (?). In Manx.</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70"></span> + +<p>Beeton’s Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. 1872 (?). +Beeton’s Penny Books. <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs.... Original and altered from Watts. By +W. A. Pope. 1873. 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London and +Liverpool. 1873. 12<sup>o</sup>.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. Utrecht: 1874 (?). 8<sup>o</sup>. In +Dutch. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. London: Religious Tract Society. +1875 (?). <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs.... Illustrated. London. +1875 (?). <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’s Divine and Moral Songs. (Edited by H. F.) +London: (Chilworth printed) 1877 (?). <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Bible Voices for the Young. Consisting of Watts’ Divine +and Moral Songs; Scripture Characters; First, Second and +Third Catechisms, etc. 2 <abbr title="part">pt.</abbr> London: Systematic Bible +Teachers Depository. 1879 (?). 18<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs. Illustrated. London: +1879 (?). 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs. London: Frederick +Warne and Co. 1880 (?). cloth, <abbr title="gilt edges">g.e.</abbr>, coloured frontispiece +and 50 illustrations.</p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs. London: Religious +Tract Society. 1880 (?). pp. 48, <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral.... Improved edition with +engravings. Glasgow: G. Cameron. 1883 (?). pp. 64, <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. +<i>B.M.</i></p> + +<p>Thirty-one Divine Songs for the use of Children. Glasgow: +Marr and Sons. 1883 (?). pp. 31, 32<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_71"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs.... With illustrations, etc. +London: Religious Tract Society, pp. 95, 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i>, <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs.... With coloured pictures by +Mrs. A. Gaskin. London: Elkin Mathews. 1896 (?). pp. 60, +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>B.M.</i> See 1901 (?).</p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. London: 1897. +8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bod.</i></p> + +<p>Divine: and: Moral | Songs: For Children. | By the: +Reverend | Isaac: Watts: D.D. | Elkin Mathews | Vigo <abbr title="Street">St</abbr> +London | 1900 (?). pp. 62, 5¾ × 4½. Thirteen full-page +pictures in color by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin: glazed picture +boards, half cloth.</p> + +<p>Divine: and: Moral | Songs: For Children | By the: +Reverend | Isaac: Watts: D.D. | Elkin Mathews | Vigo St +London | 1901 (?). pp. 92, 7¾ × 5½, cloth, with full-page +color plates by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin.</p> +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_72"></span> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80"> + <img src="images/image072b.jpg" data-role="presentation" alt="decorative banner"> +</figure> + +<p class="center">FRONTISPIECE.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="image072a"> + <img src="images/image072a.jpg" alt="woodcut of a classroom. Four students read at a desk; a small child is on the lap of the instructor."> + <figcaption> + <div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Happy the Child whose tender years</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Receive Instructions well:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Who hates the Sinner’s path, and fears</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The road that leads to Hell.</div> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80"> + <img src="images/image072b.jpg" data-role="presentation" alt="decorative banner"> +</figure> + +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_73"></span> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_American_Editions"> +<i>The American Editions</i> +</h2> +</div> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use +of Children. By I. Watts. Boston: Reprinted 1719. <i>Evans</i>, +2085.</p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 1st edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 2nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 3rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 4th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 5th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 7th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. The +Eighth Edition. London printed: Philadelphia: Reprinted +and Sold by B. Franklin in Market Street. 1737. <i>Evans</i>, +4602. <abbr title="Issues of the Press"><i>Hild.</i></abbr>, 567.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. New +York: Sold by James Parker. 1744. <i>Evans</i>, 5508.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. New +York: Printed and Sold by Henry De Foreest in Wall-Street. +1747. <i>Evans</i>, 6080.</p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 9th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Philadelphia, 10th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. By +the late Isaac Watts, D.D. The Eleventh Edition. Philadelphia. +B. Franklin, and D. Hall. 1749. <i>Evans</i>, 6438. +<abbr title="Issues of the Press"><i>Hild.</i></abbr>, 1113.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. New +York: Printed by H. Gaine. 1753. <i>Evans</i>, 7134.</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_74"></span> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. By +Isaac Watts, D.D. Philadelphia: Printed by James Chattin. +1757. <i>Evans</i>, 8059. <abbr title="Issues of the Press"><i>Hild.</i></abbr>, 1569.</p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 2nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 3rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 4th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 5th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 7th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 8th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 9th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 10th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<p>Divine | Songs | Attempted | In easy Language | for the +Use of | Children. | By I. Watts. | The Eleventh Edition. | +Boston: <abbr title="New England">N.E.</abbr> | Reprinted and Sold by Z. Fowle | and S. +Draper, opposite to the | Lion & Bell, in Marlboro-Street, +| 1759 | pp. iv + 48. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. Philadelphia: +Printed by W. Dunlap, for G. Noel and Company, +Booksellers in New York. 1760. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>Evans</i>, 8764.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. New +York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1760. <i>Evans</i>, 8765.</p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 12th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Boston, 13th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. The +fourteenth edition, corrected. Boston: Printed for John +Perkins. 1771. pp. 47, 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>Evans</i>, 12272.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. New-London, +printed and sold by T. Green. 1772. <i>Yale.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, for the Use of Children. By I. Watts. +Printed by Joseph Cruikshank: Philadelphia 1772 (?). +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_75"></span>Woodcut portrait, 32<sup>o</sup>, Wrappers. Copy sold at Libbie’s, +Boston, Dec. 6–7, 1906.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. By +Isaac Watts. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank +for Robert Aitken. 1773. <i>Evans</i>, 13065. <abbr title="Issues of the Press"><i>Hild.</i></abbr>, 2956.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Newport: Printed +and sold by Solomon Southwick. 1773. <i>Evans</i>, 13066.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. Boston, +<abbr title="New England">N.E.</abbr>: printed and sold by T. and J. Fleet, at the Heart and +Crown in Cornhill. 1773. pp. 46, 6¾ × 3⅝, wood-cut +frontispiece of church. <i>A.A.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for the use of Children. Norwich: Green +& Spooner. 1777. Advertised August 1, 1777, in New +England Gazette. <abbr title="List of Books"><i>Trum.</i></abbr>, 1575.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Worcester, Mass.: +Isaiah Thomas. 1778. See Proceedings <abbr title="American Antiquarian Society">Amer. Antiq. Soc.</abbr> +New Series. Vol. 13, p. 445. <abbr title="Bibliography of Worcester"><i>Nich.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children. By Isaac Watts. Philadelphia: +Printed by Robert Aitken, 1781. <i>Evans</i>, 17421. +<abbr title="Issues of the Press"><i>Hild.</i></abbr>, 4167.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children. By Isaac Watts, also Prayers +and Catechisms. 1783 (?). pp. 64, 5¼ × 3¼. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. To +which is added, the Wonderful dream, by the author. Also +four delightful and entertaining stories. Norwich: Printed +by John Trumbull. 1783. 18<sup>o</sup>. <i>Evans</i>, 18294. <abbr title="List of Books"><i>Trum.</i></abbr>, 157.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. Newburyport, +<abbr title="1784"><span class="allsmcap">M,DCC,LXXXIV.</span></abbr> John Mycall. pp. 54, 4½ × 3. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 1st edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 2nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 3rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76"></span>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 4th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 5th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 7th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 8th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 9th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 10th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 11th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 12th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 13th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 14th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 15th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 16th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 17th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 18th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 19th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 20th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 21st edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 22nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 23rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Hartford, 24th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. By +I. 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Coverly. | Price 12 cents | Great allowance made by | +the Grose or Dozen. | 1790 (?). pp. 36, 5¾ × 3¼. <i>B.M.</i>, +<i>S.</i>, <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr>, <abbr title="Watkinson Library"><i>Wat.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language, etc. By +Isaac Watts, D.D., Author of the Lyric Poems. Middletown: +Printed by Moses H. Woodware. <abbr title="1790"><span class="allsmcap">M,DCC,XC.</span></abbr> pp. 32, +3⅝ × 2⅜. Cut on reverse of title. <abbr title="Connecticut Historical Society"><i>Conn.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language, etc. Boston: +Printed and Sold by Samuel Hall. <span class="allsmcap">M,DCC,XCII.</span> pp. +71, 32<sup>o</sup>, one illustration. <abbr title="Brooklyn Public Library"><i>B.P.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | attempted in | easy language | for the +use of | Children | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | Hartford: | +Printed by Elisha Babcock | 1794. | pp. 31, 4⅛ × 2½, +frontispiece, marbled paper covers.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, attempted in easy language for +the use of Children. Boston: Samuel Hall. 1796. <abbr title="48MO">48<sup>o</sup></abbr>, +illustrated, wrappers stitched. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 1st edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 2nd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 3rd edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 4th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 5th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 6th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li><span class="pagenum" id="Page_80"></span>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 7th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 8th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 9th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 10th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine Songs, etc., Haverhill, Coverly, 11th edition. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine 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| for +the use of | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | +(The sixty-fourth Edition.) Haverhill: | Printed and sold +by N. Coverly. | 1797. | Price Nine pence. | pp. 34, <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. +<i>Bos.</i>, <abbr title="Essex Museum"><i>Esx.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs attempted in easy Language, +for the use of Children. Revised and corrected. By Isaac +Watts, D.D. Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, No. 53 Cornhill. +Boston: 1799. pp. 70, 4 × 3⅜, pictorial paper covers. +Wood-cut frontispiece and wood-cuts in the text. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy language for the use of +Children. Salem. 1800. pp. 48, <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <abbr title="Essex Museum"><i>Esx.</i></abbr></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_82"></span> + +<p>A | Choice Collection | of | Hymns, | and | Moral +Songs; | Adapted to the Capacities of Young | People, | on +the several Duties and | Incidents of Life. | Adorned with +Cuts, to impress more lasting | Ideas of each Subject upon +the Mind, than | can be attained by those in common use. | +To which is added, | Specimens | of | Divine Poetry. | By +several Authors. | Hartford: | Printed by John Babcock. | +1801 | pp. 112, 5¼ × 2¾, paper covered oak boards. +Contains about half the Divine Songs and all but one of +the Moral Songs. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs. | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | To +which are added, | The Principles | of the | Christian Religion, +| In plain and easy Verse. | By P. Doddridge, D.D. +| New York: Printed for John Tiebout, | No. 246 Water Street, +| By L. Nichols. | 1802. | pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3½, boards, +half leather, eleven oval wood cuts.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, in easy language for the use of +Children. By Isaac Watts. Charlestown: 1802. 32<sup>o</sup>, +stitched. Copy sold at Libbie’s, Boston <abbr title="October">Oct.</abbr> 22–24, 1907. +See 1804.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs, | for | Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Cambridge | Printed at the University press +| By W. Hillard. | <abbr title="1803"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCCIII.</span></abbr> | <abbr title="Numbered Edition">Num. Edit.</abbr> 4000 | pp. 36, +6 × 3⅜, figured paper covers. Arms of Phillips Academy +on title. <i>A.A.</i>, <i>Bos.</i>, <abbr title="Pequot Library"><i>Peq.</i></abbr>, <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs, | for | Children. | By Isaac +Watts, D.D. | The second Cambridge edition. | Printed by +W. Hillard. | 1804. | pp. 36, 6 × 4, figured paper covers. +<i>Bos.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the use +of Children. Providence: Heaton and Williams. 1804. +<i>A.A.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_83"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs; attempted in easy language for +the use of Children. Revised and Corrected. Boston: +Hosea Sprague. No. 88 Newberry <abbr title="Street">St.</abbr> 1804. pp. 63, +4⅛ × 2¾, illustrated. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Poetical Works of Isaac Watts. With life of the Author. +Philadelphia: B. Johnson. 1804. 2 <abbr title="Volumes">Vols.</abbr> <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. 2nd Vol. +contains Divine Songs for children, Moral Songs, A Cradle +Hymn. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs attempted in easy language for +the use of children (also) Catechisms for Children and +Youth, Prayers, etc. By Isaac Watts. Revised and Corrected. +New Haven, Conn. 1804. <abbr title="Harvard Library"><i>Har.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs, | Attempted in Easy Language, +| for | the Use of Children: | By Isaac Watts, D.D. +| <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Charlestown: | Printed by Samuel Etheridge. | +Sold by him | at the Washington Head Bookstore. | 1804. +| <abbr title="New York State Library"><i>N.Y.S.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Hudson: Stoddard. +1805. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Martin and James; or, the | Reward of Integrity: | A +Moral Tale, | Designed for the Improvement of youth. | +New York: | Printed and sold by John C. Totten, | No. +155 Chatham-Street, | where may be had a variety of Children’s +Books. | 1807. | pp. 72, 5⅜ × 3⅜, marbled paper +covers, wood-cuts. Pages 56–72 contain 16 of the Divine +Songs. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language | for the +| Use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | London printed | +Hartford, | Reprinted by Hudson and Goodwin. | 1807. +| pp. 120, 4½ × 3, half leather. <i>A.A.</i>, <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs (The shorter Catechism agreed upon by +the Assembly of Divines, etc.) London printed. Hartford +reprinted. 1807. <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>B.M.</i></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_84"></span> + +<p>Watts’ | Divine Songs | For the use of | Children | with +plates. | G. Love, sc. | Philadelphia: | Published by J. +Johnson. | 1807. | pp. 52, 5⅜ × 3, stiff paper covers. Engraved +title page with vignette of cupids. Engraved frontispiece +and 12 crude engravings. <abbr title="New York Historical Society"><i>N.Y.His.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | for | Children. | By Isaac Watts, D.D. | +<img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Philadelphia: | Published by Benjamin Johnson +| No. 249, Market Street | 1807. | pp. 48, <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. Cut on +title, The Good Samaritan, and 17 small cuts in text by +Anderson. <i>Bos.</i>, <abbr title="Historical Society of Pennsylvania"><i>Penn.His.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs attempted in easy language for +the use of Children. Boston: Lincoln & Edmonds. 1808. +pp. 47. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs; | For Children. | Attempted in Easy Language. +| By I. Watts, <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">D. D.</abbr> | Ornamented with Cuts. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> +| From Sidney’s Press, | New Haven. | 1809. | pp. 36, +5⅜ × 3⅜, paper covers. Cut on front cover and on back +cover. Frontispiece and 10 cuts in text. Front cover +bears, Published by I. Cooke & Co. New Haven. <abbr title="New York Historical Society"><i>N.Y.His.</i></abbr>, +<i>A.A.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in easy Language for the use of +Children. Newburyport. 1809 (?). pp. 37, <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>, illustrated. +<abbr title="Essex Museum"><i>Esx.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs | Attempted in | Easy Language, | For +the Use of | Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Utica: +| Printed and sold by Seward and Williams. | 1810. | pp. +36, 5 × 3, oak boards, paper covered, half leather. Vignette +on title, wood-cut head and tail pieces in text. Includes +Dodridge’s Principles of the Christian Religion. <abbr title="New York Historical Society"><i>N.Y.His.</i></abbr>, +<i>A.A.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of +Children. Newburyport: Gilman. 1810. pp. 48, <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>, +plates. <i>Bos.</i>, <abbr title="Essex Museum"><i>Esx.</i></abbr> See 1811 (?).</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_85"></span> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral by I. W. 6½<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>. New York: +S. Wood. 357 Pearl <abbr title="Street">St.</abbr> 1811. Offered on leaf of <abbr title="advertisement">adv.</abbr> at +back of The Seven Wonders of the World. Wood, 1811. +<abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use +of Children. Walpole (<abbr title="New Hampshire">N.H.</abbr>): Isaiah Thomas & Co. +1811. 3½ × 3⅛. <i>A.A.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs. Newburyport: W. and J. Gilman. pp. +26. 1811 (?). <i>Bry.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs. Portland, <abbr title="Maine">Me.</abbr>: A. Lyman & Co. +1812. 12<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>. Offered on back of Arithmetical Tables. Portland: +Lyman. 1812.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Newburyport. +1813. <abbr title="Harvard Library"><i>Har.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Andover, Mass.: +New England Tract Society, No. 32. 1814. <i>A.A.</i>, <i>B.A.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms for Children: Together +with a collection of Hymns and Prayers. Middletown +(Conn.): Printed and Published by Clark & Lyman. +1st ed. <i>NR.</i> See 4th ed. 1818; 5th ed. 1819.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms, etc. Middletown. +2nd ed. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms, etc. Middletown. +3rd ed. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Plain and Easy Catechisms, etc. Middletown. +1818 (?). 4th ed. pp. 36, 5⅜ × 3⅛. Pages 20–32 contain +12 divine and 2 moral songs.</p> + +<p>A | Plain and Easy | Catechism | For Children. | By +Isaac Watts, D.D. | To which are added, | Divine Songs, +By the Same Author. | Boston: | Printed by Parmenter +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86"></span>and Norton | 1818. | pp. 16, 4½ × 2⅝, paper covers. +Pages 12–16 contain four of the songs.</p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs for the Use of Children. New +Haven: Sidney’s Press. 1818. <abbr title="48MO">48<sup>o</sup></abbr>, paper covers. Copy +sold at Libbie’s, Boston, March 12, 13, 1913.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ | Plain and Easy | Catechisms | For | Children: +| Together with a Collection of | Hymns and Prayers | +Fifth Middletown Edition | Middletown (Conn.): | Printed +and Published by Clark & Lyman. | 1819. | pp. 36, 5½ × +3½, paper covers. Pages 21–31 contain 12 divine and 2 +moral songs. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine Songs for Children. By Isaac Watts, D.D. To +which is added Catechisms and Prayers for Sunday Schools. +New Haven: A. H. Maltby & Co. 1819. pp. 36, 5½ × 3½, +stiff paper covers. <i>A.A.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral, for Children. Albany: G. J. +Loomis and Co. 1819. <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>, paper. Copy sold at Libbie’s, +Dec. 6, 7, 1906.</p> + +<p>Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of +Children. Boston: S. T. Armstrong. 1819. pp. 36, <abbr title="24MO">24<sup>o</sup></abbr>. +Frontispiece and cuts in text. <i>A.A.</i>, <abbr title="Harvard Library"><i>Har.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Watts’ | Divine Songs | For the use of Children. | Sidney’s +Press | For John Babcock and Son, New Haven, | +S. and W. R. Babcock, 163 King St., | Charleston, and +M‘Carty and Davis, Philadelphia. | 1820. | pp. 31, 5¾ × +3½. Wood-cut frontispiece and cuts in text, by Anderson. +<abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr>, <abbr title="Pequot Library"><i>Peq.</i></abbr> See 1824, 1830, 1831, 1838, 1840, 1842.</p> + +<ul> +<li>Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 1st ed. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 2nd ed. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 3rd ed. <i>NR.</i></li> +<li>Divine and Moral Songs, etc., Andover, 4th ed. <i>NR.</i></li> +</ul> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_87"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Andover: Flagg +and Gould. 5th edition. 1820. (New England Tract Society. +Pub. No. 32). pp. 20, <abbr title="SixteenMo">16<sup>o</sup></abbr>. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Hymns, Ornamented with 38 handsome engravings, +25 <abbr title="cents">cts.</abbr> Hartford: George Goodwin and Sons. 1820. +Offered under Books for Children on back of New England +Primer. Geo. Goodwin and Sons, Hartford. 1820. +See 1822.</p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ Divine Songs, | for | Children. | Hartford: | +Printed and Sold by G. Goodwin & Sons. | 1822. | pp. 22, +paper covers, 5⅛ × 2¾. Front cover is the title page. +Vignette on title and 6 wood-cuts in text.</p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral, for the use of Children. +Geneva, N. Y.: James Bogert. 1823. pp. 24, 5⅛ × 2¾. +<i>Bry.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs. New Haven: J. Babcock and +Son. 1824. pp. 31, illustrated.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. New York: +American Tract Society. 1825. 12<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, | Divine and Moral, | By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | +Embellished with numerous engravings | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Revised +by the Committee of Publication of the | American Sunday-School +Union. | Philadelphia: | American Sunday-School +Union. | No. 316 Chestnut Street. | First edition, +1826. pp. 90, 6 × 3¾, cloth. Frontispiece and numerous +wood-cuts in text.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | for | Children. | By the Rev. +Isaac Watts, D.D. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Published by the | American +Tract Society, | 150 Nassau St., New York. | 1830 (?). pp. +48, 4⅛ × 2⅝, paper covers, frontispiece, cut on title and +three cuts in text. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_88"></span> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs for the use of Children. With +handsome engravings. New Haven: S. Babcock; Charleston: +S. Babcock & Co. 1830. pp. 23, 5½ × 3¼, illustrated, +yellow paper covers. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine Songs. | Attempted in | Easy Language | For the +| Use of Children. | By I. Watts, D.D. | New York: +Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl <abbr title="Street">St.</abbr> | 1830 (?). 3¾ × 3, cloth. +Frontispiece and numerous cuts in text. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr> See 1832.</p> + +<p>Hymns for Children: By Doctor Watts. New Haven: +S. Babcock. 1831. pp. 16, 3½ × 2, illustrated, yellow +paper covers. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Watts’ | Divine and Moral | Songs. | For the use of +Children | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon +Day, | At the New Juvenile Book-Store, | No. 376, Pearl-Street. +| 1832. | pp. 23, 5½ × 3½, wood-cuts.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. New York: +American Tract Society. 1833 (?). pp. 16, 4½ × 2¾, +illustrated, brown paper covers. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Dr. Watts’ | Divine Songs. | First Part. | Northampton: +| John Metcalf.... 1837. | pp. 24, 5⅞ × 3⅝. Frontispiece, +vignette on title and cuts in text; 13 of the Divine +Songs. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Watts’ Divine Songs; for the use of Children. New +Haven: S. Babcock. 1838. pp. 24, 5½ × 3½. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Infant Hymns. Designed for young Children. New +Haven: S. Babcock. 1840. pp. 16, 3¾ × 2, illustrated, +blue paper covers. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Infant Hymns; Designed for young Children. New +Haven: S. Babcock. 1842 (?). pp. 16, 3¾ × 2¼, illustrated, +paper covers. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr></p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_89"></span> + +<p>Questions and Answers, Taken from Dr. Watts’s Hymns +for Children. Boston: 1st edition. <i>NR.</i></p> + +<p>Questions and Answers, Taken from Dr. Watts’s Hymns +for Children. (By A. Bullard). 2nd edition. Boston: +Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. 1843. 32<sup>o</sup>. <abbr title="Harvard Library"><i>Har.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral.... To which are added, +a few prayers, etc. Boston (Mass.) (Protestant Episcopal +Church of Massachusetts No. 8). 1844. pp. 44, 12<sup>o</sup>. +<i>B.M.</i>, <abbr title="Harvard Library"><i>Har.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral, by I. Watts. Philadelphia, +1844. Copy sold at Merwin-Clayton’s, Nov. 22–24, 1911.</p> + +<p>Songs, | Divine and Moral, | For the use of Children. | +By Isaac Watts, D.D. | Complete edition, | with twelve +fine engravings on wood. | Worcester: | Published by C. +Harris. | 1845. | pp. 72, 4⅝ × 3½, cloth. Frontispiece portrait. +<i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, | Divine and Moral, | For the use of Children. | +By Isaac Watts, D.D. | Complete edition, | with twelve +fine engravings on wood. | Boston: | Published by William +Henshaw. | No. 9 Cornhill. | 1845 (?). pp. 64, 5¼ × 4¼, +paper. Same cuts and printer as item above. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, for Children. Revised by the +Committee of Publication. Massachusetts Sabbath School +Society. Boston: 1845. pp. 48, 4⅝ × 2¾, paper. Frontispiece +and cuts in text. <i>Bry.</i></p> + +<p>Songs, Divine and Moral, for Children. New York: C. +Wells. 1845. Cuts. <i>A.A.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: +Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1845. Cloth, illustrated. +First edition.</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_90"></span> + +<p>Songs, | Divine and Moral, | By | Isaac Watts, D.D. +Embellished with numerous engravings. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Revised +by the Committee of Publication of the | American Sunday-School +Union. | Philadelphia: | American Sunday-School +Union, | No 316 Chestnut Street. | 1846 (?). pp. 90, 6 × +3¾, cloth. Frontispiece and numerous cuts in text. <abbr title="Brown University Library"><i>Bro.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs | For | Children. | By Rev. +Isaac Watts, D.D. | Published by the | American Tract +Society, | 150 Nassau-Street, New York. | 1846 (?). pp. +64, 4¼ × 2¾, paper. Frontispiece, vignette on title and +five cuts in text. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children. +| By | Isaac Watts, <abbr title="Doctor of Divinity">D. D.</abbr> | with twenty-four illustrations, | +Drawn on the wood by C. W. Cope. | Philadelphia: | George +S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut Street. | New York:| D. Appleton +& Co., 200 Broadway. | <span class="allsmcap">MDCCCL.</span> | pp. 124, 5½ × +4⅜, cloth, illustrated. <abbr title="Private collection"><i>B.</i></abbr> See 1851.</p> + +<p>Watts’ | Divine Songs: | for the | Use of Children. | “Let +the sweet work of prayer and praise”, etc. [in four lines] | +New Haven: | Published by S. Babcock. | 1850. | pp. 16, +4⅜ × 2¾, paper. Cuts in text. One of a set of 12 toy +books. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | For | The Use of Children +| By | Isaac Watts, D.D. | With twenty-four illustrations +| Drawn on the wood by C. W. Cope. | Philadelphia: | +George S. Appleton & Co., 164 Chestnut Street | <abbr title="1851"><span class="allsmcap">MDCCCLI.</span></abbr> +| pp. 124+4 of <abbr title="advertisement">adv.</abbr>, 5½ × 4⅜, cloth, gilt. Sixteen full-page, +hand-colored wood engravings and several uncolored +cuts in text. Cuts engraved by H. Bricker. <i>S.</i> See 1856.</p> + +<p>Horæ Lyricæ and Divine Songs, | By | Isaac Watts, | +with a Memoir, | By Robert Southey. | Boston: | Little, +Brown and Company. | New York: Evans and Dickerson. +| Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co. | <abbr title="1854"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCCC.LIV.</span></abbr> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91"></span>pages 348, 6¾ × 4¼, cloth. Engraved frontispiece portrait. +Pages 293–348 contain the Divine and Moral Songs. <i>S.</i>, +<i>B.A.</i> See 1864, 1866.</p> + +<p>Horæ Lyricæ | By | Isaac Watts | To which are added +The Divine Songs | and Moral Songs for Children | With +a life of the Author | By Robert Southey. | Boston: | Little, +Brown and Company. | 1854. <abbr title="Brooklyn Public Library"><i>B.P.</i></abbr> Differs from item +above only in wording of title-page.</p> + +<p>Little | Hymn Book | Worcester: | Published by S. A. +Howland. | Henry A. Holland, Printer. | 1855 (?). 3½ × 3. +Three little song books bound together under one general +title: Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs, Hymns for Infant +Minds, and The Juvenile Songster.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs | for | the use of Children. | By +Isaac Watts, D.D. | New York: | Robert Carter & <abbr title="Brother">Bro.</abbr> | +1856. | With 24 illustrations drawn on the wood by C. W. +Cope. 5⅝ × 4¼. Some of the prints are colored. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | and Moral Songs. | Attempted | in Easy Language +| For the | Use of Children | With some | Additional +Composures. | Philadelphia | American Sunday-School +Union, etc.; 1857 (?). pp. 96, 9½ × 5¾, grain morocco, +stamped in gold. Frontispiece and wood engravings in +text, some after Cope.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, etc. New York: American +Tract Society. 1858 (?). Gilt 10<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>, paper 3<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: +American Sunday-School Union, 1860 (?). pp. 48, 8<sup>o</sup>, +cloth, illustrated. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: +Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1860. Cloth, illustrated.</p> + +<p>Horæ Lyricæ | By | Isaac Watts. | To which are +added the Divine Songs | and Moral Songs for Children. | +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_92"></span>With a life of the Author, | By Robert Southey. | Boston: +| Little, Brown and Company | <abbr title="1864"><span class="allsmcap">M.DCCC.LXIV.</span></abbr> | pp. 368, +7¾ × 3¾. The Divine and Moral Songs occupy pp. 313–368. +<abbr title="Long Island Historical Society"><i>L.I.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs | for | Children. | By Rev. +Isaac Watts, D.D. | Published by the | American Tract +Society, | 28 Cornhill, Boston. | 1864 (?). pp. 64, 4½ × +2¾ cloth. Illustrated with wood engravings by J. Hyde. <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs. New York: J. W. Strong. +Colored covers. Offered as one of Three-cent toys, per +gross $2.25, on back of Children’s Pictorial Alphabet. +J. W. Strong, New York: 98 Nassau <abbr title="Street">St.</abbr> 1864 (?).</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, etc. New York: American +Tract Society. 1865 (?). Paper, gilt 5<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>.</p> + +<p>Divine | and | Moral Songs | attempted | in easy language, +| for the | Use of Children, | with some additional +composures. | <img src="images/image045.jpg" width="50" alt="sideways section symbols"> | Philadelphia: | American Sunday-School +Union, | No. 316 Chestnut Street. Boston: No. 9 +Cornhill. | Cincinnati: 41 West Fourth Street. | Louisville: +103 Fourth Street. | 1865(?). 9⅜ × 5¾, cloth, illustrated. +<abbr title="Library General"><i>Gen.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>The | Poetical works | of | Isaac Watts. | With a memoir. +| Boston: | Little, Brown and Company. | 1866. | pp. +368, 7¾ × 3¾. The Divine and Moral Songs occupy pp. +313–368. <abbr title="New York Public Library"><i>N.Y.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | for | Children. | By | Isaac +Watts, D.D. | Illustrated. | New York: | Hurd and Houghton +| 401 Broadway | 1866 | pp. 116, 7¾ × 5⅝, cloth. +<abbr title="Newberry Library"><i>New.</i></abbr>, <i>S.</i></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs, etc. New York: American Tract +Society. 1870 (?). Cloth 15<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>, paper 6<abbr title="cents">¢</abbr>.</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_93"></span> + +<p>Divine and Moral | Songs | for | Children. | By the | +Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. | Illustrated by anecdotes and reflections. +| Embellished with beautiful wood-cuts. | Philadelphia: +| Presbyterian Board of Publication. | pp. 144, +5⅞ × 3¾, cloth. 1872. <abbr title="Union Theological"><i>U.T.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: +Presbyterian Board of Publication. Cloth, illustrated. 1882.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: +Presbyterian Board of Publication. Paper, illustrated. 1883.</p> + +<p>Divine and Moral Songs for Children. Philadelphia: +Presbyterian Board of Publication. Cloth, illustrated. 1886.</p> + +<p>Poems; or Divine and Moral Songs for the use of Children. +New York, 1889 (?). <i>Bry.</i></p> + +<p>Songs for Children in easy Language. By Isaac Watts. +Illustrated by C. W. Cope. Engraved by John Thompson. +Boston: J. Earle, 1892. pp. 94. See <abbr title="British">Brit.</abbr> list, 1848. <abbr title="Library of Congress"><i>L.C.</i></abbr></p> + +<p>Childhood’s Songs of long ago. Being some of the divine +and moral songs written by Rev. Isaac Watts. With +pictures by Blanche McManus. New York: Herrick & Co. +1897. pp. 87, sq. 8<sup>o</sup>. <i>Bos.</i></p> + +<p>Divine: and: Moral | Songs: | For Children | By the: +Reverend | Isaac: Watts: D.D. | L. C. Page & Company. +| Boston | 1901. | pp. 92, 7¾ × 5½, cloth. 13 full-page +plates in color by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin. See <abbr title="British">Brit.</abbr> list, 1896. +<i>Bry.</i>, <i>Bos.</i>, <i>S.</i></p> + + +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="center unindent"><i>Of this little book there have been<br> +250 copies privately printed for The<br> +Triptych by The University Press<br> +of Sewanee Tennessee. This copy is</i></p> +</div> + +<p class="center"> +<i>No.</i> <span class="sansserif">101</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="image095" style="max-width: 49.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image095.jpg" alt="Sketch of a chalice. The caption is around the top border. At the base of the chalice, three monks examine a book."> +<p class="center smaller">THE TRIPTYCH<br> +ROOM 1127 15 PARK ROW<br> +NEW YORK <abbr title="New York">NY</abbr></p> +</figure> + +<hr aria-hidden="true" class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter transnote"> +<h3>Transcriber’s Note:</h3> + +<p>Words may have multiple spelling +variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. Obsolete and alternative +spellings were not changed. Roman numeral dates are variously spelled without punctuation, with dots, or with commas. On the last page, the copy number, 101, is +handwritten, author unknown.</p> + +<p>In the Bibliography, the editor used horizontal double section symbols as +an abbreviation for the full quotation from Matthew <abbr title="Twenty-one"><span class="allsmcap">XXI.</span></abbr> +16, “Out of the Mouth of Babes....” that appears on the title page of this book. A Table of Contents was added for convenience of the +reader. Obvious printing errors, such as upside down, +reversed order, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were +corrected. 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