Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints in Europe
- Leather Bound
- Liverpool: Albert Carrington, 1869
Liverpool: Albert Carrington, 1869. Thirteenth edition. Leather Bound. Very good minus. 415 pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [12 cm]. Brown diced sheep with gilt ruled borders. Gilt rules and title (L. D. S. Hymns) on backstrip. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to extremities and gentle bumping to corners. Gilt on edges is rubbed and faded. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink on front pastedown, recto of front free endsheet (quite faint), and recto of first flyleaf. Rear free endsheet missing. Minor marginal staining to preliminary pages. Some creases to corners of leaves. Page 157 has a small ink smudge. Pages 194, 195 and 198 have a few scribbles in pencil. Creasing to p. 299/300 which obscures a couple of lines. Last two leaves of text creased and hanging on by just a thread. During collation was found to be complete. LDS Hymnals and scriptures published in Liverpool during the years of the American Civil War and throughout the 1860s are quite scarce. Flake 1771. Chism 87.
"PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION.- To supply the demand for the Hymn Book in the various required styles of binding, it became necessary to publish this, the thirteenth edition. For reasons deemed best, after careful consideration upon the chief points, the present edition has been printed entirely like the last, thereby admitting the preserving of uniformity without additional expense."
In his bibliography "A Selection of Early Mormon Hymnbooks 1832-1872: Hymnbooks and Broadsides from the First 40 Years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Tucson, Arizona, 2011), Shane Chism points out that the thirteenth edition is essentially a line-by-line reprint of the twelfth edition. It adjusts all hymn numbers from no. 31 onward down by one to make up the missing hymn no. 30. However there are still two hymn nos. 29.
Chism also states, "After large editions of 10,000, 25,000, 10,000, and 10,000 for the 1849, 1851, 1854 and 1856 hymnbooks, respectively, the LDS Church in the 1860's scaled back all of its publishing efforts, including hymnbooks. Best estimates of printing numbers put the 1863, 1869, and 1871 Liverpool editions of the hymnbook at runs of 2,000 to 3,000 copies each, though no exact records have been found. Compounding matters for the 1869 edition, according to an article in the New Evening Post quoted in the March 19, 1870 Littell's Living Age under the heading 'Brigham Young as a Smuggler,' a shipment of that edition on its way to Utah was discovered by the Chicago post office and seized for non-payment of duties. An unknown number were likely destroyed.
"PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION.- To supply the demand for the Hymn Book in the various required styles of binding, it became necessary to publish this, the thirteenth edition. For reasons deemed best, after careful consideration upon the chief points, the present edition has been printed entirely like the last, thereby admitting the preserving of uniformity without additional expense."
In his bibliography "A Selection of Early Mormon Hymnbooks 1832-1872: Hymnbooks and Broadsides from the First 40 Years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Tucson, Arizona, 2011), Shane Chism points out that the thirteenth edition is essentially a line-by-line reprint of the twelfth edition. It adjusts all hymn numbers from no. 31 onward down by one to make up the missing hymn no. 30. However there are still two hymn nos. 29.
Chism also states, "After large editions of 10,000, 25,000, 10,000, and 10,000 for the 1849, 1851, 1854 and 1856 hymnbooks, respectively, the LDS Church in the 1860's scaled back all of its publishing efforts, including hymnbooks. Best estimates of printing numbers put the 1863, 1869, and 1871 Liverpool editions of the hymnbook at runs of 2,000 to 3,000 copies each, though no exact records have been found. Compounding matters for the 1869 edition, according to an article in the New Evening Post quoted in the March 19, 1870 Littell's Living Age under the heading 'Brigham Young as a Smuggler,' a shipment of that edition on its way to Utah was discovered by the Chicago post office and seized for non-payment of duties. An unknown number were likely destroyed.