Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private, and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in The United States of America. Approved and Assembled by the General Assembly.Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private, and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in The United States of America. Approved and Assembled by the General Assembly. To Which are Added, The Form of Government in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, The Directory for Worship, and the Shorter Catechism.

16mo.(3" x 5.5") 1843. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 481 + 82 pp. Full brown textured calf with blindstamp rule framing large decorative gilt Gothic-inspired designs with arabesque flourishes and stylized foliate motifs. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title in third compartment, gilt floral filligree centered to all others. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, head of spine chipped with small loss, extremities rubbed. All edges gilt. Prior ownership to first free endpaper, both endpapers soiled and smudged. Minor foxing, mostly focused to fore-edges and to front and rear of text. One of the great 19th century contributions of the mainline American Presbyterian Church to the world was the creation and labors of the Presbyterian Board of Education in 1833. The idea for this work was born out of informal discussions about the need and value of using the printing press to promulgate the teachings of the Presbyterian Church, and it was the Synod of Philadelphia that approved a resolution to "constitute a board of managers to prepare, publish and circulate Presbyterian tracts and books inculcating the distinctive doctrines of our Standards, which board shall be known as 'The Board of Managers of the Presbyterian Tract and Sabbath-School Book Society,' under the care of the Synod of Philadelphia."