![[MORMON CHURCH]. 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: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/NYR/2016_NYR_12260_0021_000(mormon_church_smith_joseph_the_book_of_mormon_an_account_written_by_th092738).jpg?w=1)
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[MORMON CHURCH]. 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: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830.
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[MORMON CHURCH]. 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: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830.
8° (187 x 115 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. (Some spotting and browning as usual, a few small pale stains.) Original sheep, smooth spine, black morocco lettering-piece (slight scuffing and wear at extremities, head of spine with light chipping, short tear at foot of spine).
FIRST EDITION, with the extra leaf of testimonies. The Book of Mormon, 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, 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 1; Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 1; Grolier American 37; Howes S623; Sabin 83028; Streeter 4:2262.
8° (187 x 115 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. (Some spotting and browning as usual, a few small pale stains.) Original sheep, smooth spine, black morocco lettering-piece (slight scuffing and wear at extremities, head of spine with light chipping, short tear at foot of spine).
FIRST EDITION, with the extra leaf of testimonies. The Book of Mormon, 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, 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 1; Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 1; Grolier American 37; Howes S623; Sabin 83028; Streeter 4:2262.
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Please note that the “Church catalog” reference refers to A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America, Forming a Part of the Library of E. D. Church, published in 1907 and reprinted in 1951, and not to any publication by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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