The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi

  • Leather Bound
  • Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Company, Printers and Publishers, 1888
By Smith, Joseph
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Company, Printers and Publishers, 1888. Salt Lake City edition. Leather Bound. Good +. xii; 623pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Full black leather, with the title and double gilt-ruled borders on the spine, and single gilt-ruled borders on the boards. Leather worn. Text block cracked at the front and rear, however still very sturdy. Notations in pen and pencil (including 2 prior ownership markings) on endpapers, front flyleaf, half title, and the reverse of the title page. Small loss from bottom fore-edge of title page. A bit of underlining and dark staining to p. 20. Several pages with minor brief marks in pencil. Light creasing to pp. 417-420. Printing of the pages in the pagination occasionally a bit effaced (all pages in the correct order). Collated and complete. Division into Chapters and Verses, With References, by Orson Pratt, Sen. Flake/Draper 624. Same as the 1885 Salt Lake City edition.

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