Very scarce early American Presbyterian work on exclusive Psalmody. We trace no other examples on the market at the time of cataloguing. Includes engagement with contemporary theological works and a rather impressive historical cataloging of the use of the Psalms in the Church. 

Baird, Thomas Dickson. An Inquiry into the Privilege and Duty of the Christian Church, in the Exercise of Sacred Praise: A Chronology and History of Scripture Songs from the Creation; An Enlarged Review of the Ancient and Modern History of the Psalmody of the Christian Church; and an Examination of "An Apology for the Book of Psalms," by Gilbert M'Master, A. M. By Thomas Dickson Baird, A.M. Pastor of the Congregation of Lebanon, Pa. Pittsburgh. Printed by Eichbaum and Johnston. 1825. 172pp.

A good + copy, bound in leather, with minor chips, and some rubbing, but generally solid, with light to moderate foxing.