Lyra Germanica: Hymns for the Sundays and chief festivals of the Christian year. 1862

Finely bound 1862 edition of Lyra Germanica bound by Robert Riviere. Translated from the original German by Catherine Winkworth. Riviere’s bindery was chiefly employed by important book collectors including the Duke of Devonshire, Samuel Christie-Miller, Captain Francis Capper Brooke and also bound books for Queen Victoria. In 1869 he was tasked with rebinding the Domesday Book. Catherine Winkworth (1827-78) was a prototypical feminist, translator and dissenter, befriended by Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte who encouraged her to translate.

Author: Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Freiherr von; Catherine Winkworth (Translator) 
Title:  Lyra Germanica: Hymns for the Sundays and chief festivals of the Christian year
Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Freiherr von; Catherine Winkworth
Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, London, 
Publication date: 1862
Format: Fine Binding. Hardcover. Bound in contemporary burgundy, morocco. Decorated in gilt and blind. Gilt dentelle. Marbled end pages. All edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece, illustrations. A brass crucifix has been pinned to the upper cover.
Total Pages: 258
Condition: Very Good. Heavy rubbing to edges. Foxing to front and rear free endpapers. The brass pins which hold the crucifix to the cover have created holes in several pages the affect of which is apparent up to around page 10. Book seller’s pencil annotations to front free endpapers.
Provenance: The Art Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02914