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. 12 cm. Full black striated leather with gilt ruled borderlines to boards and backstrip. Title gilt stamped on backstrip ("L.D.S. HYMNS"). All edges gilt, but now rubbed and faded. Edges and corners of the boards are rubbed, bumped, with underlying boards occasionally peeking through. Yellow coated endsheets. Hinges are cracked at the front and rear (at page 1 and 432 respectively, just inside the flyleaves in each case). Front hinge is particularly loose and is only holding by a few threads. Page number 38 is misprinted as "8". Internally quite nice, with only the occasional minor blemish, unmarked. Collated, complete. Previous owner's name ("Mr. Riley Weaver") written neatly in black ink on the front pastedown.
"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.
"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.