Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Leather Bound
- Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News Company, Printers and Publishers, 1905
Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News Company, Printers and Publishers, 1905. Pocket size edition / Twenty-fourth edition. Leather Bound. Fine. 480pp. Twenty-fourmo [13 cm] Full black pebbled limp leather wraps. Yapp edges. Rose gilt text block edges. "L.D.S. Hymns" stamped in gilt on the spine. Silk ribbon page-marker. Contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf. An exceptionally attractive pocket-sized copy in leather of the 24th edition of the LDS hymnal, first published in 1835 by Emma Smith, wife of LDS Church founder, Joseph Smith. 383 hymns contained in this edition. Flake 1785.
From the Preface to the Twenty-Fourth Edition-
"No book published by or for the Latter-day Saints has run through so many editions or has been sold so extensively as the Hymn Book, of which this is the twenty-fourth edition. The demand for it continues unabated, and since the publication of the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody, which contains music for every hymn in this book, a new interest has been added to it and its usefulness enhanced. In this edition the names of the authors as far as they could be ascertained have been appended. Thirteen selected hyms [sic] have also been added. These are all choice poems and compositions. [sic] among them being several favorite funeral hymns, such as 'I Need Thee Every Hour,' 'Shall we Meet Beyond the River,' etc., and two standard patriotic songs,'America' and 'The Star Spangled Banner.'
From the Preface to the Twenty-Fourth Edition-
"No book published by or for the Latter-day Saints has run through so many editions or has been sold so extensively as the Hymn Book, of which this is the twenty-fourth edition. The demand for it continues unabated, and since the publication of the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody, which contains music for every hymn in this book, a new interest has been added to it and its usefulness enhanced. In this edition the names of the authors as far as they could be ascertained have been appended. Thirteen selected hyms [sic] have also been added. These are all choice poems and compositions. [sic] among them being several favorite funeral hymns, such as 'I Need Thee Every Hour,' 'Shall we Meet Beyond the River,' etc., and two standard patriotic songs,'America' and 'The Star Spangled Banner.'