[Parts 2-3] have special title pages., Collation: [pt. 1]: 16 p.l., 69 p. : fold. front., illus.; [pt. 2]: 4 p.l., 72 p.; [pt.3]: 4 p.l., 12 p., Frontispiece wanting. Portions of the imprint of [pt. 1] indistinct. 2nd-4th p.l. of [pt. 3] (sig. second A3) misbound before p. [1] of [pt. 1]. No. 1-3 of 5 items bound together. Pt. 2-3 also separately cataloged., Part 1 bound with parts 2-3 (also separately cataloged) and two other titles. To view other titles search by call no.: Bi25 18., Signatures: [pt. 1]:*⁸ **⁸ B-E⁸ F⁴(F4 blank); [pt. 2]: A⁴ B-E⁸ F⁴; [pt. 3]:A1 A³ A2-7., and The Huntington check-list gives the collation of [pt. 3] as follows: A1,A(repeated)⁴(last, prob. blank, lacking)A(cont’d)⁷(last, prob. blank, lacking).
Publisher:
Printed by I.N. for John Rothvvell, and are to be sold at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard, and by Henry Overton in Popes-head Alley
Signatures: A4A-S8(S8, blank, wanting). Imperfect: 1st leaf A1 wanting., The metrical version by Sternhold and Hopkins. Includes music., and The preliminary matter consists of the following: A1 (1st and 5th prelim. leaves), recto signature-mark, verso blank; A2, t.p., as above; A3-1: "To all that have skill, or will vnto sacred musicke"; A2, second t.p.; A3: "The names of the authors"; A4: "Of the praise, vertue, and efficacie of the Psalmes."
In morocco cases 37 cm. Volume 1 lacks individual t.p.; v. 3 lacks front? Copy used by Samuel Johnson during the compilation of his Dictionary, with his manuscript markings in v. 3. Volume 3 signature N4 (pp. 103-104) mutilated at top, affecting about 8 words text, p. 104. Copy has no front to v. 3 ; has book-plate of George Harper; manuscript criticism of the work, signed: Moshemii. In case with v. 3: Ingpen & Stonehill, firm, [1930?].