Lyra Anglicana Hymns And Sacred Songs.
£35.00
Publisher
Imprinted for Houlston and Wright at No. 65 Pater Noster Row.
Place
London
Date
1864
Synopsis
Collected and arranged by the rev. r. h. baynes, m.a. of s. edmund hall, oxford, and perpetual curate of holy trinity, maidstone. twenty-fourth thousand.
Item Description
8vo. 6.5 x 4.5 pp. xvi + 176 pp. Title page and dedication in red and black Bound in original purple cloth, gilt, with black borders on boards enclosing decorated gilt title lozenges. Binder's label of Burn 37 and 38 Kirby St. Board edges bevelled. All page edges red. A little wear to extremities, including corners and head and tail of spine, which is lightly sunned. Rear hinge just starting to crack and slight foxing of rear flyleaf Illustrated by additional vignette title page. Decorated by Head and tailpiece vignettes, initials and by colophon. An Anglican collection of hymns popular with the Oxford Movement. Collected by Robert Hall Baynes (1831-95), Anglican cleric and hymn writer, who held several curacies and livings before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Folkestone in 1880. A handsomely bound and decorated copy. Handsomely bound copy by Burn of Kirby Street, London, E.C. First published 1862.
[Stock No. 29398]
