Signatures : [A] B [C] D-G [H] I-K ; wove paper.

ca. 168 hymns with tunes ; inclose score ; for 1-4 voices ; with harmonies for SATB and/or keyboard accompaniment ; each headed by title ; author/composer name ; many with scriptural citation and/or copyright statement.

Includes indexes : "General index" -- p. 158-159 ; "Index of subjects" : "Anniversay" ; "Christmas" ; "Devotional" ; "Missionary" ; "Temperance" ; Children" -- p. 160.

Copyright statements : statement for volume dated 1876 -- t.p. ; copyright notice -- t.p. verso ; copyright statements for individual works to left of each hymn title.

"J. M. Armstrong, Music Typographer, N. E. Cor. Chestnut & 5th St., Phila." -- t.p. verso.

Preface : " ... The music herein printed will be found brilliant, attractive, and devotional, and will ... improve by frequent use. The words have been selected with great care ... preferring good, standard hymns to senseless rhyme ..." -- t.p. verso.

Includes poetry by C. Wesley, F. Crosby, Toplady, Lorenz, Hoffman, Bonar, Coxe, Lyte and Lydia Baxter ; includes tune by Hull, Nageli, S. J. Vail, von Weber, S. B. Marsh, W. O. Perkins, Wm. Kirkpatrick, P. P. Bliss, Hastings, Gabriel, Herbert, S. Webbe, and Philip Phillips.

Bound in brown, bead grain linen ; with pressed miniature oblong boards and salmon colored paper covers ; front cover bears decorative engraved title and author, with vignette of woman playing harp and by illustration of cross ; back cover bears advertisement for publisher.

Inscriptions : "Christian Sunday School" pencilled in child's hand -- front pastedown ; math sums and hymns numbers pencilled in child's hand -- front and back endpapers ; Frank Metcalf's bookplate -- front endpapers.

Paper covers soiled and abraded and with significant losses ; textblock with stains, foxing.