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

  • Hardcover
  • Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Company, Printers and Publishers, 1885
By Smith, Joseph Jr.
Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Company, Printers and Publishers, 1885. Hardcover. Fair. xii; 623pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Black cloth over boards with faint embossing to the spine and boards. Binding heavily worn. Cloth at spine ends frayed. Front free endsheet absent. First gathering hanging on by a single thread. Pp. 621-623 and rear free endsheet completely detached, but present. Light dampstaining to roughly half of the pages- the most prominent staining is to the preliminary and terminal pages, else most of it is quite light, progressively smaller, and often barely perceptible. Tiny pinpricks to top fore-edge corners of the pages. Numbers in pagination occasionally effaced or partially effaced. With the exception of the front free endsheet, all pages are present. Flake 622. Division into Chapters and Verses, with References, by Orson Pratt, Sen.

Same as 1883 Salt Lake City edition.

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