first edition
1899 · Oxford
by Bridges, Robert
Oxford: Henry Daniel, Daniel Press, 1899. First Edition. First Edition. Original printed light green wrappers, untrimmed as issued with title, author and date on front cover and woodcut publisher's device on rear cover. With original handwritten receipt from Ch. H. Daniel to Mrs. F. P. Morrell of Black Hall, Oxford (dated June 27, 1899), denoting two copies purchased, and the price, as well as citing that these were copies 9 and 10. Of only 150 copies printed, this is number "x." There were only five publications printed by Henry Daniel in Oxford, while he was bursar of Worcester College. The words of the first fourteen hymns were first printed in a small pamphlet in 1897 by the Clarendon Press, and the last fifteen first published here. Near fine.
(Inventory #: 6625)