The spirit of praise
Subtitle: a collection of hymns old and new.
Contributors: Dalziel, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus, 1823-1906; Pinwell, George John, 1842-1875; Smallfield, Frederick, 1829-1915; Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905; Houghton, Arthur Boyd, 1836-1875.; Small, William, 1843-1929; Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909; Gray, Paul Mary, 1842-1866; North, John William, 1842-1924; Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911; Dalziel Brothers; Camden Press; Bone & Son
Publisher: F. Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford & Co.
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Hymns.
Other titles: Spirit of praise :
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

With printer's device printed in red on t.p. verso.

Text is printed in red and black.  T.p. printed in red, brown, gold and blue with a decorative illustrative border. Plates, text and t.p. printed within red rule border.

With decorative initials printed in red and black.

Plates with text printed on both sides.

Preliminary wood-engraved plate is printed in brown, red, gold and blue.  Wood-engraved plates within the text are printed in brown with a gold background and a surrounding decorative red and gold rule border embedded with text printed in brown.

"Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel."--List of Illustrations.

Illustrations are by J. Burlison, T. Dalziel, G. J. Pinwell, F. Smallfield, E. Dalziel, A. B. Houghton, W. Small, A. W. Bayes, Paul Gray, J. W. North and P. Hundley.

"Initial letters, ornamental headings, & c., by P. Hundley."--List of Illustrations.

Includes works by James Montgomery, William Cowper, Charles Wesley, John Wesley, Bishop Reginald Heber, John Keble, Henry Francis Lyte, Dr. Henry W. Dulcken, James Edmeston and others.

Includes "Index.": p. 249-[252].

Reid, Forrest.  Illustrators of the eighteen sixties, p. 162, 165, 196, 224, 252, 253, 262.

White, Gleeson.  English illustration, p. 133.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian publishers' book-bindings, p. 108.

MASS copy 1: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper and lower covers with central sunken ogee-shaped panel with white paper onlay blocked in gold.  Spine with signature: "AW" [i.e. Albert Henry Warren].  Spine with imprint: "F. Warne & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  W. Bone & Son.  76 Fleet St.  London. E.C.".

MASS copy 2: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design and with the same sunken panel, white paper onlay and spine signature as copy 1.  Spine with imprint: "F. Warne & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With the same binder's ticket as copy 1.  With a 3 x 10 cm rectangle cut away from the upper right corner of the preliminary wood-engraved plate.