All Right, You Sinners. Listen Up!!

We are rapidly approaching the Holiday Season and Santa Claus is feverishly reviewing his global database to determine who has been naughty or nice, who is deserving of gifts from his North Pole largesse and who will receive a lump of sub-bituminous coal in his or her stocking. For those of you on the LibraryThing Fine Press Forum (FPF) who have deviated from the straight and narrow path in 2022, the unwashed and unholy, there is still precious time to make amends and place yourselves on the proper side of Santa's List. Yes - you know who you are and, even worse, so does Santa.

Sincere repentance is necessary and what better way to get on Santa's good side before Christmas Day than carefully reading and studying from the Book of Psalms over the ensuing two weeks. As a LibraryThing FPF public service, the dlphcoracl will enable you and aid in your readings. Beginning next week (Monday, December 12) I will post a different private press edition of the Book of Psalms each day of the week. Each entry will be preceded by a brief discussion followed by appropriate photographs, leaving you no excuse for remaining on Santa's Black List. Many of the LT FPF faithful can already guess what a few of these editions will be. However, several editions of the Psalms will be true rarities unknown to nearly all of you.

After next week's series of articles, all of you sinners should find yourselves in good stead. If not, you will have to say:

"Nobody's Fault But Mine".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4U3WPYgV08

Stay tuned.

Looking forward to it. I have three fine press versions of The Book of Psalms, and I hope they are among those you have deemed worthy enough to be represented and discussed. ;-)

>2 dpbbooks:

You do indeed have three of them! However, it is the other five (note: two related editions of psalms will be included in one post) that will keep you guessing.

>1 dlphcoracl: I'm sure I'll have two of them, with a likely third already on my 'need to pick up a copy at some point' list. I look forward to seeing them all!

>1 dlphcoracl:
Do any of them include the original Hebrew text?

>5 kermaier:

No.

Anticipation is killing me here. Looking forward to this more than the next season of "The Walking Dead" or "Endeavor"!

>4 ChestnutPress:
>7 SuttonHooPress:

Even for veteran, experienced private press collectors and aficionados, there will be 2 or 3 private press editions that are not on your radar screens.

>8 dlphcoracl: I expect so!

>8 dlphcoracl: I know they will outdo my Grandmother's family bible. . . !

>1 dlphcoracl:
The only fine press Psalms in my collection is that of John Henry Nash, published in San Francisco in 1929. Not sure if it can hold its head high among the giants you’ve shown us over the past week, but I think it’s worth an honorable mention.

>11 kermaier:

The Psalms of the Singer David published in 1929 by John Henry Nash (SF) is a magnificent edition. It was not included in this week's survey of the Psalms only because I do not own a copy.

>12 dlphcoracl:
I just acquired a copy last week (coincidentally), and it is really nice. I couldn’t find a copy with its spine fully intact, but for very little money it was definitely worth a look.

I'm rather surprised that the Bruce Rogers 'Psalms' has yet to be mentioned. I think it a most handsome edition.

https://www.abebooks.com/PSALMS-DAVID-METRE-Version-Approved-Church/18800805839/...

>14 ChestnutPress: I love Bruce Rogers. I would like to one day figure out a way to use his Centaur type. I've been tempted several times to buy it in to the press, but have not had a project that sent my eye that way. Such a beautiful face. So light on the page.

>14 ChestnutPress: It is very handsome. I also quite like the LEC edition with designs by Valenti Angelo.

>15 SuttonHooPress: It is one of those type designs that needs the right project. I hope you find a suitable use for it at some point. I particularly like it in its larger sizes, printed with some bite into a heavy, textural stock.

>16 kronnevik: You sure know your Psalms editions, Karl! Indeed, it was you that introduced me to the Bruce Rogers edition.