Very rare and nearly pristine work on Psalmody by Reformed Presbyterian divine, Gilbert M'Master. Inscribed by him to J. R. McCune on the title page as shown. 

Gilbert McMaster [1778-1854] was educated at Jefferson College [1803] and was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Duanesburg Church, N. Y. in 1808. He also served at Princeton, Indiana. A Reformed Presbyterian, he authored the following: An Essay in Defence of some Fundamental Doctrines of Christianity: An Analysis of the Shorter Catechism (1815): An Apology for the Book of Psalms: The Moral Character of Civil Government Considered (1832): Thoughts on Union in the Church of God (1846). 

M'Master, Gilbert. An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; Addressed to the Friends of Union in the Church of God. Fourth Edition. Philadelphia. 1852. 223pp.

A very good copy, near fine, bound in cloth, generally solid, with bright and clean pages.