Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs. For the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Leather Bound
- Salt Lake City, Utah Territory: George Q. Cannon, 1871
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory: George Q. Cannon, 1871. Fourteenth edition / First Salt Lake City edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 2 p.l., [5]-432 pp. 13 cm. Full leather presentation binding. Decorative blind stamped borders around the edges with raised panels on both the front and rear board. The raised panels have gilt stamped borders and decorative floral patterns stamped at the center. Three raised bands with title gilt stamped on backstrip ("L.D.S. HYMNS"). A beautiful original presentation binding with only light rubbing to its edges and corners..
All edges gilt (which are now lightly rubbed and gently faded). Decorative endsheets. Small contemporary bookseller's label at the top left-hand corner of the front pastedown (the small oval shaped label reads: "James Dwyer, Dealer in Books and Stationery, Albums, Pocket Books, Fancy Goods, Toys, Etc. Salt Lake City, Utah."). Short contemporary inscription in ink (lightly faded) on front flyleaf: "Presented to _______ as a Reward of Merit by the Sixteenth Ward Sunday School June 1874." Internally clean with only the occasional sporadic stain or smudge. Collated and complete. A lovely copy. This is the first Hymnal printed in Salt Lake City, in its first state, in a beautiful presentation binding with all the bells and whistles. This volume has been cared for over the ensuing century and a half, and looks marvelous.
"This edition is the first published in Utah Territory, and possesses one distinctive peculiarity - it is not only printed and bound at the Church Printing Office, but the type in which it appears has been manufactured here. This issue differs from the two which precede it in one respect only, there have been fourteen hymns added to the collection; they, however, are placed in the last part of the book, so as not to interfere with the use of the other editions in common with this." - from the Preface to the Fourteenth Edition by George Q. Cannon.
In "A Selection of Early Mormon Hymn Books. 1832-1872," Shane Chism includes the following passages which appeared in the Deseret News regarding this first edition published in Salt Lake City:
"Co-operative stores, or parties wishing to [place orders] can pay rags into this office and receive hymn books for them as soon as they are issued. We shall advertise prices of the books in a short time." (Deseret News 19 [11 May 1870]: 168).
"We take pleasure in announcing that we are sending the last form of the fourteenth edition of the Hymn Book to press, and will have it ready for sale in a few days. The general cultivation of vocal music in the various cities and settlements of this Territory, and the widespread taste for singing among our people, combined with the fact that the practice of attending public meetings for worship and praise is general with all classes of the Saints, has led to almost innumerable demands for the Hymn Book. Up to the present time the people of the Territory have depended for their supplies of this work upon the Church office at Liverpool, England, in which country the previous thirteen editions were published. This method of supplying the demand for works of this description answered tolerably well when the population was not so numerous as it is now. But in these days there are serious objections to such a means of supply. In the first place the tariff on books imported from other countries is high one; the expenses and risk, also, of bringing a sufficient quantity to supply the demand are considerable; and then it is impolitic, and scarcely consistent with our style of doing business to send money to a foreign community to pay for work to be done for us which we can do ourselves... There is advantage connecting with issuing the Hymn Book in this city, the means which is required to pay compositors, proof readers, machine men and binders, is all paid out in the community for whom the book is published, so that money paid for its purchase is put into circulation here, and the public are benefited by it. [...] The only difference in this and the last edition [...], is the addition of a few new hymns, chiefly sacramental; but they are all at the end, the numbering of the hymns in both being identical until the addenda commences." (Deseret News 20 [29 March 1871]: 88).
Flake/Draper 1772. Woodward 108. Chism 88.
All edges gilt (which are now lightly rubbed and gently faded). Decorative endsheets. Small contemporary bookseller's label at the top left-hand corner of the front pastedown (the small oval shaped label reads: "James Dwyer, Dealer in Books and Stationery, Albums, Pocket Books, Fancy Goods, Toys, Etc. Salt Lake City, Utah."). Short contemporary inscription in ink (lightly faded) on front flyleaf: "Presented to _______ as a Reward of Merit by the Sixteenth Ward Sunday School June 1874." Internally clean with only the occasional sporadic stain or smudge. Collated and complete. A lovely copy. This is the first Hymnal printed in Salt Lake City, in its first state, in a beautiful presentation binding with all the bells and whistles. This volume has been cared for over the ensuing century and a half, and looks marvelous.
"This edition is the first published in Utah Territory, and possesses one distinctive peculiarity - it is not only printed and bound at the Church Printing Office, but the type in which it appears has been manufactured here. This issue differs from the two which precede it in one respect only, there have been fourteen hymns added to the collection; they, however, are placed in the last part of the book, so as not to interfere with the use of the other editions in common with this." - from the Preface to the Fourteenth Edition by George Q. Cannon.
In "A Selection of Early Mormon Hymn Books. 1832-1872," Shane Chism includes the following passages which appeared in the Deseret News regarding this first edition published in Salt Lake City:
"Co-operative stores, or parties wishing to [place orders] can pay rags into this office and receive hymn books for them as soon as they are issued. We shall advertise prices of the books in a short time." (Deseret News 19 [11 May 1870]: 168).
"We take pleasure in announcing that we are sending the last form of the fourteenth edition of the Hymn Book to press, and will have it ready for sale in a few days. The general cultivation of vocal music in the various cities and settlements of this Territory, and the widespread taste for singing among our people, combined with the fact that the practice of attending public meetings for worship and praise is general with all classes of the Saints, has led to almost innumerable demands for the Hymn Book. Up to the present time the people of the Territory have depended for their supplies of this work upon the Church office at Liverpool, England, in which country the previous thirteen editions were published. This method of supplying the demand for works of this description answered tolerably well when the population was not so numerous as it is now. But in these days there are serious objections to such a means of supply. In the first place the tariff on books imported from other countries is high one; the expenses and risk, also, of bringing a sufficient quantity to supply the demand are considerable; and then it is impolitic, and scarcely consistent with our style of doing business to send money to a foreign community to pay for work to be done for us which we can do ourselves... There is advantage connecting with issuing the Hymn Book in this city, the means which is required to pay compositors, proof readers, machine men and binders, is all paid out in the community for whom the book is published, so that money paid for its purchase is put into circulation here, and the public are benefited by it. [...] The only difference in this and the last edition [...], is the addition of a few new hymns, chiefly sacramental; but they are all at the end, the numbering of the hymns in both being identical until the addenda commences." (Deseret News 20 [29 March 1871]: 88).
Flake/Draper 1772. Woodward 108. Chism 88.