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SMITH, Joseph (1805-1844). The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi... by Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, N.Y.: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830.
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SMITH, Joseph (1805-1844). The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi... by Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, N.Y.: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830.
8o (186 x 112 mm). Title-page (copyright notice on verso), Preface "To the Reader," signed "The Author" (pp.[iii]-iv), text (pp.[5]-588), extra leaf "The Testimonies of Three Witnesses" (recto) "And Also The Testimony of Eight Witnesses" (verso), final blank. Without the two-page index, issued at a later date. (Narrow ink stroke on title, tear crossing text on 34/2, some browning and spotting as usual.) Contemporary calf (old amateur rebacking in leather); burlap-covered slipcase.
FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK OF MORMON, WITH THE EXTRA LEAF OF TESTIMONIES. Joseph Smith's translation of the golden tablets revealed to him by the angel Moroni in the hill of "cumorah" near Manchester, New York. This edition is the only one in which Smith was styled "author," rather than "translator," and was issued only two weeks before the formal founding of the Church of Latter-Day Saints on 6 April 1830. The text was dictated to Oliver Cowdery, who served as scribe, and a local printer, Egbert B. Grandin, proprietor of the Wayne Sentinel, who undertook to print the sizeable edition (5,000 copies) for the 25-year old Smith. The manuscript "was delivered a few pages at a time to the typesetter, who supplied all the punctuation and paragraphing" (Crawley and Flake). Church 1342; Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 1; Grolier American 37; Howes S623; Sabin 83028; Streeter IV:2262.
8o (186 x 112 mm). Title-page (copyright notice on verso), Preface "To the Reader," signed "The Author" (pp.[iii]-iv), text (pp.[5]-588), extra leaf "The Testimonies of Three Witnesses" (recto) "And Also The Testimony of Eight Witnesses" (verso), final blank. Without the two-page index, issued at a later date. (Narrow ink stroke on title, tear crossing text on 34/2, some browning and spotting as usual.) Contemporary calf (old amateur rebacking in leather); burlap-covered slipcase.
FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK OF MORMON, WITH THE EXTRA LEAF OF TESTIMONIES. Joseph Smith's translation of the golden tablets revealed to him by the angel Moroni in the hill of "cumorah" near Manchester, New York. This edition is the only one in which Smith was styled "author," rather than "translator," and was issued only two weeks before the formal founding of the Church of Latter-Day Saints on 6 April 1830. The text was dictated to Oliver Cowdery, who served as scribe, and a local printer, Egbert B. Grandin, proprietor of the Wayne Sentinel, who undertook to print the sizeable edition (5,000 copies) for the 25-year old Smith. The manuscript "was delivered a few pages at a time to the typesetter, who supplied all the punctuation and paragraphing" (Crawley and Flake). Church 1342; Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 1; Grolier American 37; Howes S623; Sabin 83028; Streeter IV:2262.