Andrew W. Johnson, The American Harmony version of 162 PLENARY

[Will Fitzgerald]

I'm doing some research on 162 PLENARY. 

Apparently, this first appeared in our shape note tradition in the 1839 second edition of Andrew W. Johnson's The American Harmony, but I cannot find a copy online. Does anyone have a copy? Or perhaps the first edition, too? 

- I'd love a scan of the song if possible

- And confirm that it is not in the first edition 

Of course, it would be lovely if one or both editions were completely scanned to Internet Archive. 

In Henry Eskew's article on Johnson's Eclectic Harmony, he has this bibliographic reference:

Andrew W. Johnson, The American Harmony: Containing a Plain and Easy Introduction to the Grounds of Music, in as Short a Manner as Would Be Expedient, and a Choice Collection of Tunes in Two Parts, the First Part Containing Altogether Church Music, the Second Part Containing the More Lengthy and Elegant Pieces, Suitable for Concerts or Singing Societies, Together with a Few Pieces Never Before Published, 2d ed. (Nashville: Printed by W. H. Dunn, 1839)

[David Warren Steel]

Will, I've seen only one copy, I believe at the University of Tennessee. I've never seen a first edition. I thought it interesting because of the attribution to A. C. Clark, who, according to J. S. James, may have been a relative by marriage of William Walker. Johnson lived in Middle Tennessee.
Johnson, Andrew Waddell (4 May 1804-13 April 1885), was the son of Richard Johnson (Revolutionary War veteran and Methodist preacher) and Lucy Hunter, born in Virginia, moved with his family in 1806 to Sumner Co. TN. where in 1824 he lived with father. In 1850 he lived in Bedford Co.; in the 1870 census he lived in Giles Co., and is listed as “teacher vocal music.” He was buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Cornersville Marshall Co. TN, He married Susan F. Ellis 4 September 1838 in Rutherford Co., and later married Mary F. Hughes 23 October 1851 in Sumner Co.
Of his later books, The Eclectic Harmony survives in a "revised and improved" second edition of 1847; I've never seen a first edition. Finally The Western Psalmodist came out in 1853, in his own seven-shape notation.
I'd be interested if anyone has seen first editions of his American Harmony and Eclectic
Harmony.
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