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, 1884
Liverpool: Printed and Published by John Henry Smith, 1884. Eighteenth Edition. Leather bound. Very Good. 432pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [12 cm] Full black striated leather, with single gilt ruled borders on the covers, spine compartments with double-ruled gilt stamped borders, and the title [L.D.S. Hymns] in gilt on the backstrip. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Light rubbing to the extremities. Numerous tiny speckles to front board. Text block cracked at p. 431. Minor moisture stains on the rear flyleaf and rear endpaper along the edges. Page number at the head of p. 266 printed as "66". Flake 1777. From the 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."
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.
"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."
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.