- Resource Type
- Tunebooks
- Accession Date
- 11/9/2018
- Date
- 1936
- Call Number
- TB1936Origina
- Subtitle
- Denson revision : the best collection of sacred songs, hymns, odes and anthems, ever offered the singing public for general use
- Author
- Denson, T. J. (Thomas Jackson), 1863-1935
- Copy
- 4
- Author 2
- Denson, S. M. (Seaborn McDaniel), 1854-1936
- Place of Publication
- Haleyville, Ala.
- Publisher
- Sacred Harp Pub. Co.
- Section
- Sacred Harps
- Librarian Comments
- c.1 donated by P. Dan Brittain.
c.2 donated by E.G. Akin with note: “This book belonged to R.J. Akin–(my Father). He sung [sic] “Bass” from it for many years. / I am giving it to the National Sacred Harp Foundation to be preserved with other precious material. Bound upside-down; lacks most of inside front flyleaf (with portraits).
c.3 donated by Gladys McGraw of Mt. Zion, Ga. and owned by H.N. McGraw. Lacks back cover, all before p.19, and all after p.438.
c.4 donated by Mozelle Smith of Bremen, Ga. Lacks all before p.13 and has various mutilated pages in the body.
c.5 owned by Charlene Wallace. Lacks back cover and all after p.458.
c.6 donated by Mozelle Smith of Tallapoosa, Ga., and given to him by Pearl McWhorter of Birmingham, Ala. Lacks all before p.19 and all after p.460; most back pages mutilated.
c.7 donated by Mildred Lovvorn and owned by W.E. Lovvorn and M.W. Lovvorn, both of Carrollton, Ga.
c.8 owned by M.C. Ray and Clark Ray, both of Jasper, Ala.
c.9 owned by Reby Stanford of Bremen, Ga. Includes two photocopies from the 1991 edition tucked in, on the back of one of which a melody has been written to the text “Love not the world, neither the things in the world.”
c.10 donated by Glenda Collins and Bert Collins and owned by Marious Simmons. Lacks all after p.458.
c.11 donated by D.T. White of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
c.12 donated by Gladys McGraw of Mt. Zion, Ga. and owned by Oscar Ray of Plant City, Fla., Leray McGraw of Waco, Ga., and Howard S. McGraw (with note “from Dady / Give to T.B. by Roy Jan. 16 1980”).
c.13 donated by I.V. McWhorter of Tallapoosa, Ga. and owned by John L. McWhorter, Dave F. McWhorter, and L.R. McWhorter of Tallapoosa, Ga.
c.14 owned by B.E. Matthews of Fyffe, Ala., C.C. Matthews of Blountsville, Ala., and Ozella Matthews of Blountsville, Ala.
c.15 owned by members of the Warner family of Blue Mountain, Ala.
c.16 owned by B.E. Matthews of Fyffe, Ala. and Dian Matthews.
c.17 owned by Jerry F. Sheppard. Badly water and mold damaged, though none seems active.
c.18 donated by Hugh McGraw of Bremen, Ga. and owned by A.M. Cagle and the Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church. Lacks inside front flyleaf.
States:
c.2-6 case-bound in full boards with cloth covering only the spines; some copies have folk reinforcements over the spine and/or part of the boards. Cover material is pale brown paper over boards. The cover typeface is the same as on the title page, slender serifed letters.
c.7-8 case-bound in boards with quarter cloth with heavy brown paper flyleaves. Cover material is pale brown paper over boards. The cover typeface is the same as in the 1960 edition, heavy sans serif. Bright white paper.
c.1,9-16 case-bound in full red cloth with heavy brown flyleaves. The cover typeface is the same as in the 1960 edition, heavy sans serif.
c.17-18 case-bound in full red cloth with pale cream flyleaves. The cover typeface is the same as in the 1960 edition, heavy sans serif. It seems likely that this may be an earlier state than the other red cloth version.
