Happy acquisitions from Christian Aid Book Sale 2006 - archaeological discoveries
This year there are quite a number of interesting items from China of the earlier part of the 20th century, possibly from the donations of some old missionaries or their families.
《新約全書》 － 官話和合譯本，附標注音字母。上海大英聖書公會 / 美華聖經會印發。
The New Testament in Character and Phonetic Script, Mandarin U.V.
Published jointly by the American Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society,
Shanghai, 1929. (Ed. 2590)
《譜天頌讚》(線譜本，民國二十五年三月初版)。上海廣學會出版，民國二十五年。
Hyms of Universal Praise (1st edition, music edition) (Edited by the Union Hymnal Committee). Shanghai: The Christian Literature Society of China, 1936.
《譜天頌讚》(數字譜本，民國二十九年十二月十版)。上海廣學會出版，民國二十九年。
Hyms of Universal Praise (1oth edition, numerical edition) (Edited by the Union Hymnal Committee). Shanghai: The Christian Literature Society of China, 1940.
《新約全書》 － 官話和合譯本，附標注音字母。上海大英聖書公會 / 美華聖經會印發。
The New Testament in Character and Phonetic Script, Mandarin U.V.
Published jointly by the American Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society,
Shanghai, 1929. (Ed. 2590)
- £1.
《譜天頌讚》(線譜本，民國二十五年三月初版)。上海廣學會出版，民國二十五年。
Hyms of Universal Praise (1st edition, music edition) (Edited by the Union Hymnal Committee). Shanghai: The Christian Literature Society of China, 1936.
- £1. (original price: $2.)
- Hardcover, clothbound.
- According to the copyright page, a total of 114,000 copies were printed in the first edition, of which 13,000 were music edition.
- The first cross-denominational ecumenical effort in church music by the Chinese Church. The Union Hymnal Committee was appointed by the Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hwei 中華聖公會，The Church of Christ in China 中華基督教會，The East China Baptist Convention 華東浸禮會，The Methodist Episcopal Church North 監理會，The Methodist Episcopal Church South 美以美會，The North China Kung Li Hui 華北公理會.
- Inside the backcover cloth wrap there is an old piece of oil-printed paper (油印紙)，which is 『五育校歌，張遜詞，一九三七；鄭少懷調，一九三七』. The original owner was probably a member of that school.
《譜天頌讚》(數字譜本，民國二十九年十二月十版)。上海廣學會出版，民國二十九年。
Hyms of Universal Praise (1oth edition, numerical edition) (Edited by the Union Hymnal Committee). Shanghai: The Christian Literature Society of China, 1940.