Hark the Glad Sound, Poem by Dr. Doddridge
London and New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, No date [c. 1880-1890]. Alice REEVE & B.D. SIGMUND. [EPHEMERA] [VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner and New York: Geo. C. Whitney. Alice REEVE and B.D. [Benjamin] SIGMUND, illustrators. Printed in Germany.
48mo oblong (3 15/16” x 5”); [12]pp; pictorial stiff wrapper, twisted gold string binding; all edges gilt; gift inscription in neat ink on verso front wrapper; 5 full page lithographed illustrations; wrapper lightly age toned; near fine. Not recorded. Item #2004
A lovely Victorian gift book containing the words of two Christmas hymns without musical notation. Hark the Glad Sound by well-known hymn writer, Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) and 5 of the 6 stanzas of the poem and hymn Earth Has Many a Noble City by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413), translated from Latin into English by Edward Caswall in 1849. This second poem is signed “Hymn A & M” for Hymns Ancient and Modern, and was adopted by the Oxford Movement within the Church of England in the mid-19th century.
Price: $125.00