Price: £275
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1899
Stock Number: 73094
(Daniel Press.) BRIDGES (Robert)
Hymns.
Description: FIRST EDITION, CIV/150 COPIES printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, predominantly black letter, untrimmed, final leaves frayed at lower edge, pp. [iv], 62, [xiv], 8vo, modern quarter vellum with marbled boards, spine lettered in black, original printed wrappers bound in, somewhat spotted with repair to rear lower corner, good
Publication Details: Oxford: 1899
Notes: Forty-three numbered hymns, adapted by Robert Bridges (apart from one by Wesley) to fit traditional melodies, written while the author was living at Yattendon. The first appearance of Hymns XXVIII-XLIII, pre-dates the fourth part of the Clarendon Press edition of the 'Yattendon Hymnal' in which they also appeared. From the library of Richard Luckett, Pepys Librarian, Magdalene, Cambridge, with his neat typographical book label designed by Will Carter of the Rampant Lions Press.
Bibliography: (Madan 45: McKay A Bibliography of Robert Bridges 35b)
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