Book Details
| Author: | Various: |
| Title: | Lyra Germanica: Hymns for the Sundays & Chief Festivals of the Christian Year. |
| Published: | London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1868. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 18 - Religious |
| Description: | Fifth edition. A collection of just over 100 hymns selected from Chevalier Bunsen's "Versuch eines allgemeinen Gesang und Gebetbuchs" published in 1833. Includes many of those best known and loved in Germany by Notker, Luther, Eber, Hermann, Dach, von Lowenstern, Niebuhr, Gerhardt, Tersteegen etc. Translated from the German by Catherine Winkworth. With Illustrations by John Leighton and Others. xx, 272 pp. Frontispiece, illustrated title page & each hymn accompanied by illustrations. Small piece cut from illustration on pp 3 and illustration cut from top of page 162 with loss of text at top of pp 161. A few spots of light foxing on half-title, back of free eps. Red eps. Front hinge cracked. Bound in beautifully decorated heavy green and red bevelled cloth boards. Gilt lettering and extensive elaborate gilt decoration on boards and spine. All edges gilt. Top and bottom of spine rubbed. Some short splits developing along edge of spine in places. Corners of boards rubbed - especially bottom corners. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #3540 |
| Price: | € 44.50 |
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