1840. HATFIELD, EDWIN F[RANCIS], compiler. FREEDOM'S LYRE: OR, PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SACRED SONGS, FOR THE SLAVE AND HIS FRIENDS. New York: S. W. Benedict, 1840. First edition. 291 hymns from various sources with metre abbreviations only, no musical notation, and (usually) attributions. 28mo., vi, 265 pp. Brown cloth stamped in..... More