Divine Songs by Isaac Watts, a Provincial Printing

Isaac Watts (1674–1748).
Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. To Which are Added, The Beggar’s Petition, Prayers, &c.
Wellington [Somerset, England]: Printed and Sold by J. Bishop, [ca. 1810]. (BRB0966)

This pamphlet is an attractive early nineteenth-century English provincial edition of Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs issued on blue-green paper with the frontispiece (on display) and final printed page pasted to the wrappers. The frontispiece portrays Dr. Watts conducting a service with both adults and children in the attentive congregation: an old woman reading (on the lower left), a boy holding an open book (on the lower right), and young girls kneeling obediently (in the center).