A hymnal, as authorized and approved for use by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of Our Lord MCMXVI : together with the Canticles at morning and evening prayer and occasional anthems.

Autograph note on flyleaf: "This is the first copy of the Hymnal of 1916 that came from the press. It is presented to Mr. J.P. Morgan by the Church Pension Fund in grateful appreciation of his kindness in financing the Hymnal. (signed) Monell Sayre, Secretary, the Church Pension Fund. Easter 1919."