Les Pseaumes de David. Dublin printed Irish Huguenots. Mis en vers Francois avec La Liturgie, le Catechisme, & la Confession de Foides Eglifes Reformees.

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Post8vo, [in 4s], x, 543, [1 - blank], 128 p. Old brown full calf, five raised bands, gilt on black lettering piece. Binder's archive tape strengthening to the fore-edge of the first eight leaves, the cut-out frontispiece entitled Pseaumes de David by P. Simms has been laid down on old paper probably the front blank leaf as the chain lines are also vertical and the same width as the front free endpaper and the following blank leaf, professional restoration to the extreme tail of the backstrip otherwise a VG copy of a scarce book, only seven copies found in COPAC. Nouvelle edition corrigee sur les Precedantes. The letterpress is very good with black ink and clear type, each first verse includes the music or chant to which it was sung. See the article by E. R. McC. Dix "French Prayer Book Printed in Dublin in 1731." Bibliographical Society of Ireland II/5 (1923) p. 96 -7 re. the probable use by the Non-conforming Huguenots in Ireland. A photocopy is included with the book. On the front pastedown there is an old ink name of George Casson, an Anglo-Norman name. N° de ref. del artículo 20870

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