A very nice first edition of Presbyterian, Thomas Dickson Baird's important work on Psalmody in the Scriptures, throughout history, and its ongoing role as faithful worship in the Church, including the Psalmody of the early American, Colonial era under the Puritans, Congregationalists, the Bay Psalm Book, etc., 

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, generally solid, with light to moderate foxing, and minor ex library marks.