FOR USE BY THE FRENCH CHURCH IN LONDON
[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François, revus et approuvez par le Synode Walon des Provinces-Unies. Nouvelle Edition.
Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise Françoise de Londres’, 1729’.
12mo, pp. viii, 355, [1], with engraved frontispiece (by Philip à Gunst after Guillaume-François-Laurent Debrie), printed in double columns with a line of music for each line of text; a very good copy in contemporary dark brown morocco, broad floral fillet on covers, spine gilt within compartments. marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, very slight wear.
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Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François, revus et approuvez par le Synode Walon des Provinces-Unies. Nouvelle Edition.
New edition of the metrical Psalms of the Pléiade poet Clément Marot and the theologian Théodore de Bèze, extensively revised, with a new version of 149 Psalms, printed for the use of Huguenot émigrés.
Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 thousands of French Protestant refugees emigrated to England. By 1700 there were nine French Protestant churches in Spitalfields alone. It was for the use of these congregations that the Psalms were printed. At the end are tables of the ‘nouvelle’ and ‘l’ancienne’ versions, prayers, liturgies for various occasions, and ‘Le Catechisme, pour instruire les Enfans’.
Small and much used books of this kind were particularly vulnerable over time: ESTC records this one at Bodley and National Library of Wales only.
