184 numbered hymns. Without the music; tunes indicated by title and/or by metrical number. ""Vorwort"" (page 3) is dated: Cincinnati, den 24. Nov. 1854; ""Anzeige"" (page [2]) is dated: Cincinnati, im December 1854. Die Agenten des Westlichen Buchwesens der Bisch. Methodisten-Kirche. NUC pre-1956 indicates that there were at least three earlier ...