Set in Stone, Fixed in Glass: The Great Mormon Temple and Its Photographers

Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good +. 388pp. Oblong quarto [22 cm] Light peach colored cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Includes an index. In a dust jacket. Dark spotting, possibly ink, on the bottom of front board and slight dark tinge to the lower right edge of pages. Fully illustrated with black & white photographs on nearly every page. Out of print and increasingly scarce, one of the principal references on Utah photography. Not only does the book cover the building of the Mormon Temple in detail, but Wadsworth has written an excellent overview of pioneer photography in Utah, including chapters on C.R. Savage, Marsena Cannon, James Crockwell, Edward Martin, C.W. Carter, George Edward Anderson, C.W. Symons, the Shiplers and more.