[Drop-head title:] Emigrant's hymn

Published by [s.n.], [s.d., 1860s?], [s.i.]

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Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United KingdomAntiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB

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Single card sheet, printed on one side only. Engraved vignette to head with caption: 'An emigrant to the Far-west of Canada, or the United States, having partially cleared his land, erected his log-hut & surmounting the first toils of settlement, thinks of his early and pious home, and remembering the lessons learnt at a British mother's knee, sits down with his Bible, and is supposed to sing the following'. Lightly creased, dust-soiled, and spotted. An apparently unrecorded printing of a devotional poem in which an emigrant to North America wistfully recalls the memory of his parents and recitations from the family Bible. In 1867, Musician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria William Christian Sellà (1813-1898) published a piano score composed to accompany the poem. No record of the author of the hymn has survived. Intriguingly, the title page of Sellà 's publication bears an illustration with the same caption as here; that version was lithographed by Thomas Howell Jones, whereas here the engraving is signed 'JW'. The hymn was printed in its entirety in at edition of The Sunday-School Magazine (June, 1850) recording a speech delivered by a well-travelled gentleman who claims to have learnt it whilst in the United States in 1847; remarkably, he sets the scene prior to his recitation with a close approximation of the aforementioned caption. Size: Dimensions 130 x 200 mm.…

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Title
[Drop-head title:] Emigrant's hymn
Author
[EMIGRANT'S HYMN]
Publisher
[s.n.], [s.d., 1860s?], [s.i.]
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Soft cover

Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB

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Established 2007, Antiquates Ltd is an Antiquarian bookseller with a large, custom built shop in the heart of the Dorset countryside. We sell fine and rare books from our Wareham shop, in catalogues, and via our website (www.antiquates.co.uk). Specialising in early printed books both English and Continental, fine English Literature, and books by, for, and about Women and Children, we nevertheless stock a wide range of works on paper from 1500-present - including modern first editions. Our bias is towards the unusual, the interesting and the important - and always have a good stock of rare books by local authors such as T.E. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy; we are just the place if you're looking for an extra-special gift for a wedding, birthday, anniversary or graduation. (Open Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm)…

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Specialising in early printed books both English and Continental, fine English Literature, and books by, for, and about Women and Children. We always have a good stock of rare books by local authors such as T.E

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Antiquates Ltd

The Conifers, Valley Road
Corfe Castle, Dorset, United Kingdom BH20 5HU