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Lyra germanica : hymns for the Sundays & chief festivals of the Christian year / translated from the German by Catherine Winkworth ; with illustrations by and engraved under the superintendence of John Leighton.

Accession number
PML 142797
Creator
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von, 1791-1860.
Published
London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Selected from the Chevalier Bunsen's 'Versuch eines allgemeinen gesang und gebetbuchs,' published in 1833. From the large number there given ... little more than one hundred have been chosen"--p. vii.
The wood engravings are executed by T. Bolton, J. Cooper, G & E. Dalziel, G. DeWilde, W. Green, H. Harral, H. Leighton, W. Murden, G. Pearson, and J. Swain after designs by J. Leighton, E. Armitage, J. Flaxman, M. Lawless, C. Keene, and S. Marks.
Device of R. Clay t.p. verso.
Description
xx, 272 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 24 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's brown cloth with red cloth mandorla centerpiece, blocked in gold and blind, signed "L" (i.e. John Leighton); this is the same design used for the binding on the 1868 edition of Lyra Germanica.
Classification
Department