first edition Hardcover
1853 · Liverpool
by Lyon, John
Liverpool: S.W. Richards, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Red cloth over boards, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind. Decorative green endpapers. All edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Errata bound in at the rear. Light staining to the boards. 1/2" split in the cloth at the head of the spine along the front joint. A bit of chipping to the cloth at the spine ends and along the front joint. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Contemporary owner's name address, and blindstamp on the verso of the front free endpaper. By a Scottish Latter-day Saint. Just before embarking for America, Lyon published the first volume of poems ever issued by a member of the Church, under the title of "The Harp of Zion." The book was donated to the Perpetual Emigration Fund, and thousands of copies were printed and sold. The Perpetual Emigration Fund was set up to help any saints who wanted to migrate to Utah. It assisted some 26,000 immigrants. Flake/Draper 5067. Crawley III: 782. Mormon Imprints 41. (Inventory #: 68116)