Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- Leather Bound
- Salt Lake City, UT: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Printers and Publisher, 1897
Salt Lake City, UT: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Printers and Publisher, 1897. Twenty-Second Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 464pp. Vigesimoquarto (24mo) [12 cm] Full brown leather with a gilt tooled spine. Title (L.D.S. Hymns) gilt stamped on the backstrip. Floral endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilt at head of the spine rubbed. Light rubbing to the extremities. Stitching sporadically visible in the inside margins. Thread tied along inside margin of pp. 272/73. Light scribble on p. 161. Numerals in the pagination very occasionally lacking. Contemporary owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "Jno. T. Thain Jr. / Cardiff / 188 Cathays / Terrace / Jan 1." This likely refers to John Teague Thain Jr. (1866-1905) who was born in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, lived in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales in 1901, and died in Logan, Utah. The Thain family is featured in the book "From Amroth to Utah" by Roscoe Howells. Flake 1783. From the Preface to the Twenty-Second Edition-
"No book published by or for the Latter-day Saints has run through so many editions or been sold so extensively as the Hymn Book, of which this is the twenty-second edition. The demand for it continues unabated and since the publication of the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody, which contains music for every hymn in this book, a new interest has been added to it and its usefulness enhanced. In this edition will be found a metrical index which the book formerly did not contain. This feature will be especially valuable to choirs. A few hymns have also been added to the end of the volume. That these additions may prove acceptable to the public, and that the book may continue its cheering and consoling mission indefinitely, is the desire of The Publishers. Salt Lake City, Utah. June, 1897.
"No book published by or for the Latter-day Saints has run through so many editions or been sold so extensively as the Hymn Book, of which this is the twenty-second edition. The demand for it continues unabated and since the publication of the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody, which contains music for every hymn in this book, a new interest has been added to it and its usefulness enhanced. In this edition will be found a metrical index which the book formerly did not contain. This feature will be especially valuable to choirs. A few hymns have also been added to the end of the volume. That these additions may prove acceptable to the public, and that the book may continue its cheering and consoling mission indefinitely, is the desire of The Publishers. Salt Lake City, Utah. June, 1897.