Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon & Sons Company, Printers - Publishers, 1899. Twenty-third edition [23rd edition]. Leather bound. Very Good +. 464 pp. 12 cm. Full leather with decorative blind stamping and ruling to boards and backstrip. Title gilt stamped on backstrip ("L.D.S. HYMNS"). Decorative floral endsheets. Covers and spine lightly rubbed and bumped. Bottom edge of the front board has a small one-inch long strip where the leather is worn through to the underlying board, and a tiny chip exposing the board there near the corner. Internally, a nice, tight, and clean copy. Previous owner's name neatly written in black ink on the front pastedown and on the verso of the front free endpaper: "Emma Drysdale's. Hymn. Book." This 1899 Salt Lake City edition of the LDS Hymns contains 370 hymns (p. [5]-442). It also includes an index to first lines (p. 443-455), an index to subjects (p. 456-460), and a metrical index (p. 461-464). Flake/Draper 1784.