Sammelband: English Hymns on the Life of Christ
Various Publishers and Dates. Octavo. Item #029905
Various titles. While the major figure in this collection of hymns is Arthur H. Brown (see the many articles in the Musical Times) from the late 19th century and most are not well known today but both the lyrics and melodic themes were among the riches of the hymns in England and America. Their length will seem long to the modern worshipper, but they were possibly to be sung in one service or by combing those of Arthur H. Brown into what would, in effect, be a cantata. The spine says: Service Songs and Life of Christ. (#1) Mary Palmer, St. John the Baptist; the forerunner; 32 pages (#2) Arthur H. Brown, Avent-Tide, 32 pages; (#3) Mary Palmer, The Child Jesus, 23 pages; (#4) Gus M. Burton, M.D., The Child Jesus, 32 pages; (#5) T. Bowman Stephenson, The Infant Savior, 24 pages; (#6) The Rev. J.F. Ohl, The Christ Child, 16 pages; (#7) H.C. & E.M. Garland, Angel's Christmas, 20 pages; (#8) Arthur H. Brown, Christmas-Tide, 32 pages; (#9) Mary Palmer, Passion-Tide, 32 pages; (#10) Arthur H. Brown, Harvest-tide, 31 pages; (#11) Arthur H. Brown, Ascension-Tide, 31 pages, (#12) Charles Darton, Immanuel, 36 pages; (#13) (W.D. Davies) A Sunday Scholars Service of Sacred Songs, 31 pages; (#14) W.D. Davies, The Sunday Scholars Service of Sacred Song, 23 pages; (#15) The Children's Messiah; A Juvenile Service of Sacred Song; and (#16) Mrs. Charles H. Streatfield, The Story of the Good Shepherd with Hymns and Tunes. music by Berhold Tours, Frank Braine, and Martin S. Skeffington, 20 pages. Bound in ¼ Morocco over cloth raised bands with two compartments lettering in gilt, wear to spine ends, spine rubbed, and ex-library copy with pocket on front pastedown and stamp on free endpaper. [References: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, "Writing for, yet apart: nineteenth-century women's contentious status as hymn writers and editors of hymnbook for children", in Victorian Literature and Culture, 2021, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 47-81]. All bound together in half calf over black cloth binding, spine rubbed and spine ends worn.
Price: $245.00