(MORMONS.) Smith, Emma; compiler. A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

(MORMONS.) Smith, Emma; compiler. A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 351 pages. 16mo, contemporary sheep, worn; minor foxing and browning, minor worming to the rear blank and rear pastedown, small chip to the top corner of the front free endpaper; early owner's pencil signatures on the front free endpaper (Elizabeth Sikes). Nauvoo, IL: E. Robinson, 1841

rare first edition of the nauvoo hymnal. Emma Smith first published a selection of hymns in the June 1832 issue of The Evening and the Morning Star. The Kirtland Hymnal, her first book-length collection, was published in 1835 and contains 90 hymns. The Nauvoo hymnbook, Emma Smith's second compilation, is much enlarged, containing 303 songs, including 10 of Mormon authorship which appeared here for the first time. Although the High Council initially ordered that 10,000 copies be printed, Crawley suggests that the actual number was far fewer. we could locate no copies of this edition of the mormon hymnal appearing at auction in the last century. Crawley 103 (locating 10 institutional copies); Flake 1761.
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