Split-leaf psalters are finally back in stock

[St. Gerdt]

The 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter (Split-Leaf) » Grange Press

This most recent reprint of The Scottish Psalmody is published by the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) and contains the text of the 1650 Metrical Version of the Psalms. The 193 tunes included in this publication are drawn from a wide variety of locations and periods...

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It's been a full year, but we do finally have the split-leaf back in stock at Grange Press. We spent a great deal of time attempting to bring the production of the split-leaf to the US and to bring its production cost down, but to no avail.

However, I am please to say that several small changes were made with this reprint, and I believe this is the highest quality edition of the split-leaf since the last Cambridge editions in the early 2000s.

 

[shunoshimobe]

I dont use metrical psalters, just wanted to say the design of the book is very captivating. Was a split leaf design common in the older days, or is this a new print design? I really like how it looks.

 

[St. Gerdt]

Very common format among the Scottish Presbyterians. I don't know how far back the actual split leaf books were produced, but they were ubiquitous in the late 19th-early 20th century. The 1929 editions are probably the height of mass production. Until the early 2000s, I'm not aware of a mass-produced version by anyone other than Cambridge University Press. The last several reprints, beginning ~20 years ago now, have been produced by Riley, Dunn & Wilson in Dunkirk under the FCC Psalmody Committee in Scotland. This reprint was the first that we (Grange Press) supervised.