Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Leather Bound
- Liverpool: Printed and Published by John Henry Smith, 42, Islington, 1884
Liverpool: Printed and Published by John Henry Smith, 42, Islington, 1884. Eighteenth Edition. Leather Bound. Good. [5]-432 pp. 11.5 cm. Full black striated leather with gilt ruled borders to boards and backstrip. Title gilt stamped on backstrip ("L.D.S. HYMNS"). All edges gilt, but now rubbed and faded. Gilt turn-ins. Pale yellow endpapers, with dampstaining along the edges. Edges and corners of the boards are gently rubbed, bumped, with underlying boards just barely peeking through at three of the fore-edge corners. Front flyleaf with two previous owners' names- "Joseph T. Ellis" and "Ariel Larsen / Route 1, Box 248 / Provo, Ut." Several brief scribbles in dark pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper and title page, and scribbles on several pages in the text. Very insignificant small or thin stains to the very top and bottom edges of the pages. A bit more prominent staining on pp. 254/55, however still not severe. Top fore-edge corners of pages occasionally dog-eared. 3" closed tear to p. 159/60. Small open tears to top edge of pp. 401/2, 413/14, 415/16, obscuring only a tiny bit of the page number designating p. 401. Final index page (p. 431/32) beginning to detach at the foot. P. 345 is labeled "34". ***Missing p. 417/18. "Preface to the Eighteenth Edition. — This Edition is uniform with the seventeenth, except that a few typographical and verbal errors made in that have been corrected in this. John Henry Smith. 42, Islington, Liverpool, January, 1884." This 1884 Liverpool edition of the LDS Hymns contains 345 hymns (p. [5]-414). It also includes an index to first lines (p. 415-427), and an index to subjects (p. 428-432). Flake/Draper 1777.
John Henry Smith (1848-1911) was born in Carbunca (now Council Bluffs), Iowa, to George A. Smith and Sarah Ann Libey Smith. The introduction of "Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith" edited by Jean Bickmore White emphasizes that the Salt Lake Tribune described John Henry Smith as "prominent in all matters that concerned development of the West" and as being positioned at the "front rank in Utah affairs." He was highly involved in church and community affairs throughout his adult life. In 1872, when he was twenty-four years old, he began his public service as an assistant clerk in the territorial legislature. In 1874 he departed for England as a Mormon missionary, beginning a vigorous career in the LDS Church that he would continue as European Mission president, apostle, and ultimately as counselor in the First Presidency.
John Henry Smith (1848-1911) was born in Carbunca (now Council Bluffs), Iowa, to George A. Smith and Sarah Ann Libey Smith. The introduction of "Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith" edited by Jean Bickmore White emphasizes that the Salt Lake Tribune described John Henry Smith as "prominent in all matters that concerned development of the West" and as being positioned at the "front rank in Utah affairs." He was highly involved in church and community affairs throughout his adult life. In 1872, when he was twenty-four years old, he began his public service as an assistant clerk in the territorial legislature. In 1874 he departed for England as a Mormon missionary, beginning a vigorous career in the LDS Church that he would continue as European Mission president, apostle, and ultimately as counselor in the First Presidency.