The Latter-Day Saints' Psalmody; A Collection of Original Tunes Composed and Compiled by the following committee: G. Careless, E. Beesley, J. J. Daynes, E. Stephens, T. C. Griggs, also embracing compositions of other well known composers, together with a number of old and familiar tunes specially arranged for the work, providing music for every hymn in the L.D.S. hymn book. Gotten up under the approval of the late President John Taylor, and accepted by President Wilford Woodruff and Council, for the use of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1896. Second edition - Revised and Enlarged. Leather. Flake-Draper 1788. 353 numbered songs + General Index of Tunes [2], Metrical Index [2], Index to First Lines [2] pp. 3/4 leather over black cloth; title in gilt on front cover; plain edges and endsheets.
Lacks the leather along the spine; rubbing and wear to leather along the edges and the corners are rubbed through; minor cracking to hinges; name inside front cover.
5000 copies published in the first printing of this edition. From the Preface: This general distribution having exhausted the First Edition and the demand for the Psalmody still continuing, necessitates the issuing of this Second Edition revised, corrected, improved in form and printed on superior paper, together with the addition of twenty-four tunes set to the words as published in the twentieth edition of the Latter-day Saints' Hymn Book. Condition: Very good. Item #40405
Price: $200.00