A Selection of Hymns From the Best Authors (John Rippon)
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Title: A Selection of Hymns From the Best Authors
Full title: A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, Intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns
Editor – Compiler: John Rippon
Publication date and place: 1787 in London by Thomas Wilkins.
London editions of note
- 1. 1787 in London by Thomas Wilkins. 588 hymns
- 2. 1787 in London by L. Wayland. 588 hymns
- 3. 1790 in London by Thomas Wilkins
- 4. 1793 in London by John Rippon
- 5. 1794 in London by John Rippon
- 6. 1795 in London by John Rippon
- 10. 1800
- 15. 1803 in London by John Rippon, 588 hymns
- 26.
Description: An enormously influential collection of 588 hymns, especially in America. American editions began in 1792 with William Durrell in New York and Shepard Kollock in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and continued into the late 20th century.