It might seem that the combined respectability and anonymity of the authorial attribution ‘A Presbyter of the United Church of England and Ireland’ would have led to its frequent use, but an author search of WorldCat for this phrase yields only thirteen results. It is even more remarkable that twelve of these examples are various editions of the same work, Selections from the Old and New Versions of the Psalms of David.1 Given the vagaries of cataloguing, there may well have been other volumes issued with such a clerical mask, since even the British Library’s copy of the 1819 first edition of this work does not show up among these thirteen...