Verbessertes Gothaisches Gesangbuch zum Gebrauch beym öffentlichen Gottesdienste und bey häuslicher Andacht
By: [Hrsg.: Christian Wilhelm Bause]
Publisher: Im Verlag bey Johann Christoph Reyhers Witwe und Erben
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Gotha
Language: ger
Number of pages: 312
Notes: FPR nach dem Ex. der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha und der Nordelbischen Kirchenbibliothek Hamburg.

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Rare Book copy: Bound with: Bible. German. Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments. Gotha : Verlegts Johann Christoph Reyher, 1791. Holdings: Old Testament. -- Bible. German. Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments. Gotha : Verlegts Johann Christoph Reyher, 1787. Holdings: New Testament.

Rare Book copy: Example of "Bauern Einbände" or "Peasant bindings."

Rare Book copy: Vellum binding over light paste boards; round hollow-back spine with false bands accented in elegant paintwork; each spine compartment with a floral device fully spanning it; endpapers of polka-dot "wallpaper" and all edges gilt and gauffered; binding elaborately tooled overall in gilt (not embossed with a plaque as was another style of this type of painted vellum binding), and then painted in shades of rosy apricot, a deeper orange, green, and blue; each board with an outer border of gilt vines on a rose-colored field surrounding a green-defined central area offering tulips on a white field and with a central device of a rosy heart containing a gilt paschal lamb centrally tooled on it; also on the heart of the front cover are the ownership initials "E. J. H." and the date 1798 stamped in black.

Rare Book copy: Housed in contemporary pull-off-the-top pasteboard case covered with two styles of "wallpaper" patterned paper.