Baptist Standard Hymnal with Responsive Readings

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A hardcover copy of Baptist Standard Hymnal with Responsive Readings edited by Willa Ann Hadley Townsend. The hardcover clothbound book is green with orange-peach page edges, and gold leaf text and design elements. The top half of the front cover features the title of the book printed in gold leaf text that reads [BAPTIST STANDARD / HYMNAL / With / Responsive Readings]. Below is a styled gold lead illustration of a scroll piece of sheet music behind a pipe organ. The text and illustration are printed within a thin, black rectangular frame. Printed at the top of the spine in gold leaf text is the abbreviated title: [BAPTIST / STANDARD / HYMNAL]. The back cover is plain. The interior pages are white with black text.

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