Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs: For the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Leather bound
- Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News Co., Printers and Publishers, 1887
Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News Co., Printers and Publishers, 1887. Sixteenth Edition. Leather bound. Good. 432pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [12.5 cm] Black leather with single ruled borders on the covers, spine compartments with double-ruled borders, and the title [L.D.S. Hymns] on the backstrip. With the Preface to the First English Edition (Manchester, 1840). Rear board partially detached. 3/4" crack to front joint at head of spine. Thin loss from head of spine. Spine moderately rolled. Numerous small stab marks to surface of spine. Corners and head of spine touched up (painted). Possible wax (black) applied. Contemporary owner's name, with the date "1888" in pen on the front pastedown. Notations in pencil on the front endpaper and the verso of the front free endpaper. Periodic soiling and small, faint tidemarks to the pages. Top fore-edge corners with sporadic light fold creases. Flake 1778. An 1887 Salt Lake City edition. Same as 1883, Salt Lake City, fifteenth edition. The first edition printed in Salt Lake City was in 1871. It is designated as the fourteenth edition, and was published by George Q. Cannon (for sale at the Deseret News Office, The Church Book Depot).
In "A Selection of Early Mormon Hymn Books. 1832-1872," Shane Chism includes the following passage which appeared in the Deseret News regarding the first edition published in Salt Lake City: "A NEW EDITION OF THE HYMN BOOK.- There is at present time among the Saints generally in this Territory, and especially in Sunday schools, a great call for hymn books, and to obviate the necessity of importing them, it has been deemed best to print and publish at and to issue from this office a new edition of this work. The accomplishment of such a task as this in this city, would have been impossible two or three years ago; but improvements lately effected in our establishment, manufacturing of our own type and paper, and the importation of steam power and improved presses, have removed the obstacles before existing; and we take great pleasure in informing our readers, and the people of the Territory that, by April Conference we expect to have a large edition of the hymn-book printed and bound, and ready for sale." (Deseret News 20 [22 February 1871]: 32).
In "A Selection of Early Mormon Hymn Books. 1832-1872," Shane Chism includes the following passage which appeared in the Deseret News regarding the first edition published in Salt Lake City: "A NEW EDITION OF THE HYMN BOOK.- There is at present time among the Saints generally in this Territory, and especially in Sunday schools, a great call for hymn books, and to obviate the necessity of importing them, it has been deemed best to print and publish at and to issue from this office a new edition of this work. The accomplishment of such a task as this in this city, would have been impossible two or three years ago; but improvements lately effected in our establishment, manufacturing of our own type and paper, and the importation of steam power and improved presses, have removed the obstacles before existing; and we take great pleasure in informing our readers, and the people of the Territory that, by April Conference we expect to have a large edition of the hymn-book printed and bound, and ready for sale." (Deseret News 20 [22 February 1871]: 32).