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1837 · 8845 — Pittsburgh: Johnston & Stockton 1837. Second Stereotyped Edition. Hardcover. Good. Leather spine with printed paper boards front detached rear joint fragile lacking some of the backstrip. Small oblong 10.5 cm 4 1/4 x 7 inches. Lacks the title page & front free end papers. iii.-xiv. 15-160 1-64; text complete except for the title page leaf i.-ii. Ink stamp of Davenport Museum on preface & rear fly page ink numbers beneath. Stanislaw 246. A four-shape shape-note tunebook.Samuel Morton Wakefield 1799-1895 b. Franklin Co. PA; d. West Newton PA. "He served as a drummer in the War of 1812. He became a Methodist minister in 1820.In addition to being a minister he was also a tailor singing teacher and a state legislator. He published several collections of sacred music." - entry at FindaGrave online.With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak Jr. DWS. Johnston & Stockton hardcover