Unrecorded, in a Betrothal Binding
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Den Swenska Psalm-Boken. Af Konungen gillad och stadfästad år 1819. Med utsatta Melodier. Stockholm, Ludwig Öberg, 1830.
[bound with:]
[—.] De årlige Evangelier och Epistlar, med därtill hörande Collecter och Böner; jemte Böner för offentlig och enskilt Andakt, enligt Evangelii-Boks-Komiténs sednare Förslag. Stockholm, Ludwig Öberg, 1830.Two parts in one vol., 12mo, pp. I: [vi], 414, [4], II: 300; woodcut vignettes to titles, woodcut headpiece; a little foxed and toned, trimmed close at head and tail in parts; else a handsome copy in contemporary Swedish vellum over wooden boards, boards panel-stamped and gilt to a design of three hearts containing two scenes of Christ and a motto (see below), painted in red and green, spine painted in compartments to a (later?) floral design, edges gilt and gauffered, sewn two-up on three sunken cords; slightly rubbed, front board a little faded but rear board fresh, clasps perished; birth and gift inscriptions of 1831, 1903, and 1948 to front endpapers (see below).
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Den Swenska Psalm-Boken. Af Konungen gillad och stadfästad år 1819. Med utsatta Melodier.
A seemingly unrecorded Swedish hymnbook, in a delightful gilt and painted panel-stamped betrothal binding and with a long chain of female provenance in central Sweden.
The large central heart embossed on each board bears the inscription ‘Tag denna äfen trogen hand | Til ett Säkert Kiärleks Band’ (‘Take this true and faithful hand | To be love’s everlasting band’). The upper and lower hearts depict the Risen Christ with his banner and the Passion respectively, the latter with both the sun and the moon in the sky to symbolise the Darkness at Noon.
Provenance:
1. On the front pastedown an early owner recorded the birth of one ‘Brjtta L[ars?] Dotter’ on 2 December 1831, likely Brita Larsdotter (1831–1908) of Bjuråker near Malung, Dalarna.
2. Mathilda Wikström (1872–1959) of Baggärdet, Dalarna, with an inscription recording the gift of the book as a Christmas present ‘af hennes så tillgifna vän Siri [‘Bohm’ added in another hand] Dalarne [sic] 24/12 1903’ (‘from her very affectionate friend Siri Bohm [née Wikström, 1860–1942] Dalarna 24/12 1903’).
3. Margit Ramström (1889–1965) of Främsbacka, Dalarna, with an inscription recording the gift of the book ‘från hennes så tillgivna vän Margit Bonde född Wikström Dec. 1948’ (‘from her very affectionate friend Margit Bonde née Wikström [1890–1980] Dec. 1948’.
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