Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine, of Utah, Her Founders, Her Enterprises, and Her Civilization- Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (3 volumes)

Salt Lake City, UT: Edward W. Tullidge, 1885. Leather bound. Large octavo [24 cm] 3/4 green leather with pebbled cloth covered boards, and gilt stamped titles on the spines. Volume 1 is in fair condition only, volume 2 is in good condition, and volume 3 is in very good condition. Extremities rubbed and abraded. The endsheets have darkened patches along the edges. Tanned pages. There are very occasional small light stains and marks on the pages. Sporadic offsetting from the illustrations. The text blocks of volume 1 and 2 are cracked multiple times. The cloth boards of volume 1 are a slightly different shade than the others. The joints and the exposed areas along the edges have been filled in with a matching shade of green. The front cover of this volume is cosmetically cracked along the joints. The rear board is detached, but present. The text block has been re-adhered to the covers, but has been fastened a bit low between the covers. The text block is also still coming away from the spine anyway. Bookseller's stamp on the front pastedown of volume 1. Endsheets soiled. Tape has been applied to the inside margins of a couple of the pages. There are stab marks in the inside margins of many of the pages of volume 2. The text block of volume 3 is sturdy. With The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders by Edward W. Tullidge, at the end of volume 3. Volumes 2 and 3 are ex-libris Franklin D. Richards, with his bookplate on the front pastedowns. Franklin Dewey Richards was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1849 until his death in 1899. Shortly after his call as a member of the Twelve, Richards went to England where he served as president of the British Mission and next as president of the European Mission, still directly presiding over missionaries in Britain but also supervising the mission presidents in other parts of Europe. At this time, Richards also became editor of the Millennial Star and director of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund's operations in Europe.