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A. DeAn LArsenBOOK COLLECTING CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 3-4, 2005

L. Tom Per r y Spec ia l Co l lec t ions , Haro ld B . Lee L ibr a r y, Br i gham Young Un iver s i t y

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A. DEAN LARSEN RARE BOOK COLLECTING CONFERENCE. L. TOM PERRY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. HBLL 1130. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNVERSTIY. PROVO, UT 846022004 CONFERENCE. PHONE: (801) 422-3514 EMAIL: LIBSCM@BYU.EDU. WEBSITE: HTTP://SC.LIB.BYU.EDU

A. DeAn LArsenBOOK COLLECTING CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 3-4, 2005

L. Tom Per r y Spec ia l Co l lec t ions , Haro ld B . Lee L ibr a r y, Br i gham Young Un iver s i t y

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Welcome .................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

A. Dean Larsen Biography ................................................................................................................................................ 11

Schedule ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Pre-Conference Workshop

Paper Marbling And Japanese Shuminagashi ................................................................................................. 17

Conference Seminars

Finding Hidden Treasures in Almanacs ............................................................................................................ 29

Starry Messengers: Early Printed Astronomy Books ............................................................................... 33

Don Quixote And The Modern Narrative ................................................................................................... 37

The Sources And Challenges of The Joseph Smith Project ................................................................. 41

The Printed Word of Joseph Smith, Jr., 1830-1844 .................................................................................. 47

Reliquiae Victorianae: Or Scraps of Victorian Life ..................................................................................... 57

My Personal Collecting of Mormon Books .................................................................................................. 63

Library Maps ............................................................................................................................................................................. 65

Notes ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 73

Table of ConTenTsA. DeAn LArsen

BOOK COLLECTING CONFERENCE

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WelCome

Dear Conference Attendees:

On behalf of the Harold B. Lee Library, welcome to the third annual Special Collec-tions’ book collecting conference. Each October the Harold B. Lee Library invites collectors to enjoy different rare book collections from its vaults. During this unique event, participants will inspect rare materials personally; listen to specialists and visit with fellow collectors. Two university faculty members, five curators and one friend of the Library will present on a diverse slate of topics including the writings of Joseph Smith, early printed astronomy books, the reading life of Victorian men and women in 19th-century England and Don Quixote. Mark Pollei, Head of Conserva-tor for the Harold B. Library, will also present a one day pre-conference workshop on the art of paper marbling.

This annual conference is a means of creating a community of friends (collectors, readers, scholars, book dealers, and book arts professionals) joining together to celebrate two of the most important acts of humankind: creating and preserving ideas in the form of books. The conference will focus on the historical importance of books as artifacts, as well as the ideas captured within their pages.

The conference is named after A. Dean Larsen. As a Gifts Librarian and as Associ-ate University Librarian, Dean spent his professional life in a quest to make the Lee Library one of America’s most important academic libraries. Because of his affable nature, his deep love of learning and of rare books, Dean developed life-long rela-tionships with scholars, collectors and books dealers from around the world, who aided him in this quest. If we are now a great academic library, it is largely because of the work of A. Dean Larsen. Dean’s widow Jean M. Larsen, and their children gener-ously endow this conference as a means of remembering Dean, and his contribu-tion to the world of books. The Lee Library salutes the Larsen family for continuing Dean’s work through this annual conference.

We hope you enjoy attending the conference.

Sincerely,

Randy J. OlsenUniversity Librarian

Scott DuvallCo-conference FounderAssistant University Librarian

Brad WestwoodCo-conference FounderChair, Special Collections

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memorial

The Harold B. Lee Library Book Collecting Conference is named in memory of A. Dean Larsen, retired Associate University Librarian at Brigham Young University, who passed away on May 29, 2002 after a long battle with cancer. Dean Larsen worked at the BYU Library for 40 years and was principally responsible for the acquisition of over three million volumes during his career, adding not only to the general collection, but building a world-class Special Collections as well.Under Dean’s direction, the library reached prominence as one of the nation’s finest research libraries. Dean worked closely with Chad Flake to acquire unique research materials that today form the core of Special Collections. Among the collections built by Dean and Chad are the History of Printing, Renaissance and Reformation, History of Science, British and American Literature, Victorian and 19th Century Social History, and Western and Mormon Americana. His personal interest in collecting rare books and manuscripts resulted in life-long friendships with librarians, collectors, curators, and book dealers around the world. Prior to his passing away, Larsen and his wife, Jean, donated to the Lee Library their personal collection of more than 1,800 books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, and postcards dealing with Yellowstone National Park and established an endowment for its continued growth.A. Dean Larsen’s life and career were centered on libraries, book collecting and BYU. For this reason the University is pleased to recognize Dean’s many contributions by naming the Lee Library’s Book Collecting Conference in his honor.

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Memorial and Biography

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biography

A. Dean Larsen was born August 23, 1930 in Vineyard, Utah, a rural farming and dairy community adjacent to Orem and Provo, Utah. He was the third of five children, two older brothers and two younger sisters, born to Vera Alice Austin and Ariel Ellis Larsen. His early years growing up on a farm and in a house without indoor plumbing required his performing daily chores of carrying water from the spring, providing kindling to start the fire in the old kitchen coal stove and the heater in the front room as well as keeping the coal buckets full.

During the war years in the 40’s, a steel mill was constructed in Vineyard thus prompting the relocation of several families living in that area. When Dean was 14 years of age the Larsen family moved to Orem where they had purchased a small farm and a newly remodeled modern home. Also on the property was a large barn. With the move Dean’s father started a hide and fur business, thus the barn had a double function of providing shelter for live stock and a spacious area for processing hides and furs.

Dean attended Lincoln High School in Orem where he was on the debate team, associate editor of the year book, president of FFA and a student assistant for a very inadequate school library. After graduating from high school he entered Brigham Young University, focusing his study on history and geography. Summers and evenings were spent buying and processing hides for his father. He interrupted his university study after his sophomore year to serve as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon completion of this two year mission, he returned to his studies at BYU and obtained student employment in the University Library. From that time on, books and the library became an integral part of his life.

When he graduated from the university with a major in history, the Korean War was under way and he was drafted to serve in the army. After basic and specialized training, he was assigned to the Central Intelligence Corp in Stuttgart, Germany. This assignment and location provided extensive opportunities during weekends and short leaves to experience travel throughout Europe. This opportunity imbued him with a lasting appreciation for the arts, museums, libraries, book shops, rare book dealers, etc.

Dean returned home from his tour of duty with the army in the fall of 1956 and was hired full-time at the BYU library with an agreement that he would be given summers off to pursue a Master of Library Science degree, at the University of Michigan. He completed his degree in August of 1960. The next year he was appointed director for collection development. The fruits of his ability and tireless efforts are now documented with the quality and quantity of books acquired during his tenure at the helm of acquisition for the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library. Dean was also an avid collector of material for his personal library. One of his most extensive collections was his collecton of Yellowstone materials. He also spent a great deal of time working on a general bibliography for Yellowstone material. Before his death, he was able to accrue information for more than 10.000 annotated entries.

From the beginning of his career he demonstrated what some have said is a gift or rare ability - a true “book sense”. It is something analogous to height in a basketball player ; it can’t be acquired through training; you either have it or you don’t. He was able to recognize not only the value of the acquisition, but also envision how it would contribute to the collections of the library.

ConferenCe sCheDule

Thursday, november 3rdPre-Conference

10:00-12:00 The Art of Paper Marbling and Japanese Suminigashi or by Mark Pollei1:00-3:00 Conservation Lab, Rm. 3452 HBLL

Lunch BYU Dining Options: Skyroom, Museum Cafe, Cougareat

Friday, november 4thConference

9:00-9:15 Welcome and Instructions by Randy J. Olsen, University Librarian and P. Bradford Westwood, Chair of L. Tom Perry Special Collections

9:30-10:45 Seminar 1

10:45-11:00 Break: Drinks in DeLamar Jensen Lecture Room Rm 1130 HBLL

11:00-12:15 Seminar 2

12:30-1:45 Luncheon: Ernest L. Wilkinson Center, Rm. 3228

1:45-2:55 Seminar 3

3:00-4:00 Guest Speaker: John A. Taylor

4:15-5:30 Seminar 4

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pre-ConferenCe Workshops

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The Art of Paper Marbling and Japanese Suminagashi

Many people are familiar with the modern marbled designs found in contemporary product packaging, books and graphic design. Yet few people know the long and fascinating history of traditional Ebru, or Turkish marbling. Shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years, marblers worked at night in secret workshops and behind locked doors to prevent spying bookbinders from stealing their secrets. Not until the mid-nineteenth century did marblers begin to write and publish their formulas and marbling techniques.

This hands-on workshop will provide participants a brief overview of the history of traditional Turkish marbling and a chance to create a set of marbled papers in the Feather, French Curl, Peacock, Stone and Nonpareil combed patterns. Each participant will learn about the tools and materials used to create marbled papers, as well as examine historical samples of marbled book covers and flyleaves from the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. Participants will also practice a Japanese technique of paper decorating, called suminagashi, or “ink floating.”

Brief History of Marbling

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, abri, or Persian marbled paper, was introduced into major European cities from Turkey, Persia and India by Venetian merchants. These papers were highly prized for their detailed patterns and colors, flowing designs and veined marble appearance. Marbling, however, was regarded as a secret art and marblers were reluctant to share their knowledge for fear of competition. For instance, most apprentices were taught only one aspect of marbling and usually worked behind wooden partitions so they could not see what other marblers were doing. As marbling spread throughout Europe, master marblers invented patterns which they named after the countries where they resided. The French Curl, Old Dutch, Spanish Marble and Italian Vein are patterns still in use today.

By the seventeenth century, master marblers set up guilds and workshops in Holland, France and Germany and hired apprentices to produce papers for bookbinders who used them as decorative flyleaves and book covers. Marbling also had a practical use. The edges of account books were marbled so missing pages could be detected by the disruption in the delicate pattern, indicating tampering or forgery.

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By the eighteenth century, marbled papers were often exported to England by wrapping them around toys and other small items to avoid paying customs duties on the imported papers. The marbled papers were carefully removed from the toys and meticulously ironed out by bookbinders who used them for book covers, boxes, etc. In the late nineteenth century, the veil of secrecy was finally removed when a self-taught marbler, Charles Woolnough, described the entire marbling process in his book, The Art of Marbling. In 1885, Josef Halfer of Budapest published his famous book, Die Forshritte der Marmorierkunst, which was later published in the United States as The Progress of Marbling. Halfer’s work is still considered the most important source of information for marbling techniques. With the publication of Halfer’s book a number of other important marbling manuals quickly succeeded.

Unfortunately, as the veil of secrecy lifted, the industrial revolution changed the way books were produced. Marbled papers began to be mass-produced by machines resulting in overproduction and decreased popularity. Master marblers were soon without jobs and for years marbling faded into an obscure, old-fashioned art. It was not until the 1950’s when interest in hand bookbinding, calligraphy and letterpress printing brought widespread attention to the art of marbling again. Today, marbling is a flourishing art and artists and professional marblers are producing papers of extraordinary quality, color and design.

Suminagashi

Suminigashi meaning “spilled ink” refers to a type of Japanese decorated paper with concentric circles of softly colored flowing lines. The patterns found in suminigashi papers often resemble patterns found in nature: wood grains, water currents or wind patterns in a rice field. It is believed that suminagashi originated in either Japan or China in the twelfth century and evolved over time to become distinctly Japanese in character. Suminagashi is different from western marbling in that sumi ink is used as the primary colorant for the paper and no additives are used to thicken the water size, unlike western marbling which uses thickeners to prevent pigments from sinking in the marbling tray. Traditionally, suminagashi had been used as a decorative paper for poetry or as decoration on the interior of Japanese doors. Today, suminagashi is prized as paper for calligraphy, books covers and decoration for one-of-a-kind kimonos.

Suminagashi is created by floating sumi inks onto the surface of water, manipulating the inks into jagged free flowing lines, and transferring the pattern to a sheet of washi paper. Unlike western marbling, inks are dropped onto the surface of the water with very finely pointed brushes. The process of repeatedly dropping ink and surfactant onto the surface of the water produces a series of concentric circles which are manipulated by blowing or fanning.

Biography

Mark Pollei completed his post-graduate studies in book and paper conservation at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating from Brigham Young University with a BA in Art History in 1992. He has worked as a rare book conservator at the Houghton Library, at Harvard University, and completed an advanced rare book conservation internship at the Library of Congress in 1996. Presently, he is the Department Chair of the Rare Book Conservation Laboratory at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

Selected Bibliography

Chambers, Anne. The Practical Guide to Marbling Paper. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc., 1988.

________. Suminagashi: The Japanese Art of Marbling: A Practical Guide. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc., 1991.

Berry, Galen. The Art of Marbling on Paper and Fabric. Unpublished pamphlet, 2002.

Easton, Phoebe Jane. Marbling: A History and a Bibliography. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Bookshop, 1983.

________. “Suminagashi: The Japanese Way with Marbled Paper.” Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the Libraries, University of Southern California, 8 (1972): 3-17. Guyot, Don. Suminagashi: An Introduction to Japanese Marbling. Seattle: Brass Galley Press, 1988.

Halfer, Josef. The Progress of the Marbling Art. Buffalo: American Bookbinding Co., 1894. (Reprinted: Taos, NM: Fresh Ink Press, 1989).

Maurer-Mathison, Diane. The Ultimate Marbling Handbook: A Guide to Basic and Advanced Techniques for Marbling Paper and Fabric. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.

Maurer-Matison and Jennifer Philippoff. Paper Art: The Complete Guide to Papercraft Techniques. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997.

Miura, Einen. The Art of Marbled Paper. New York: Kodansha America, Inc., 1990.

Narita, Koyofusa. A Life of Ts’ai Lung and Japanese Paper-Making. Tokyo: The Paper Museum, 1980.

Nevins, Iris. Traditional Marbling. Sussex, NJ: Published by Iris Nevins, 1988.

Reese, Jane H. Making Your Own Marbled and Decorated Papers. London: New Holland Ltd., 1996.

Thom, Karo. “Suminagashi: Ink Floating.” Fine Print, vol. 7, no. 3 (July 1981): 79-81.

Vogel, Diane and Paul Maurer. Marbling: A Complete Guide to Creating Beautiful Patterned Papers and Fabrics. New York: Crescent Books, 1991.

Selected Bibliography of Marbling Manuals from the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library

Berger, Sidney E. Karli Frigge’s Life in Marbling. Newtown, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 2004. Bolton, Claire. The Compton Marbling Pattern Book: Illustrated with Twenty Seven Samples of their Specially Hand Marbled Papers. Winchester, UK: The Alembic Press, 1986.

Heyeck, Robin. Marbling at the Heyeck Press. Woodside, CA: The Heyeck Press, 1986.

McKay, Barry. Patterns and Pigments in English Marbled Papers. Oxford, UK: The Plough Press, 1988.

Muir, Ann. The Year in a Marblers Workshop: Harvesting Colour. Introduction by Barry McKay. Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 2000.

Nevins, Iris. Varieties of Spanish Marbling: A Handbook of Practical Instruction with Twelve Original Marbled Samples. Newton, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1991.

Sumner, James. The Mysterious Marbler. North Hills, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1976.

Wakeman, Geoffrey. English Marbled Papers. Leicestershire, UK: Plough Press, 1979.

Weisse, Franz. The Art of Marbling. Translated by Richard Wolfe. Newtown, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1980.

Wolfe, Richard J. Introduction. Three Early French Essays on Paper Marbling 1642- 1765. Newtown, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1987.

––––––––. On Improvements in Marbling the Edges of Books and Paper: A Nineteenth Century Marbling Account Explained and Illustrated with Fourteen Original Marbled Samples. Newton, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1983.

Woolnough, C. W. The Whole Art of Marbling. Oxford, UK: The Plough Press, 1985.

Yagi, Tokutaro. Suminagashi-Zome. Translated by Kyoko Mueke. Woodside, CA: The Heyeck Press, 1991.

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Useful Web Sites

Aiko’s Art Materials Import http://aikosart.com/

Aiko’s Art specializes in washi (handmade Japanese papers), exquisite yuzen chiyogami prints, dyed mingei solids and other imported Japanese papers. Aiko’s also sells specialty brushes (fude) and paints (sumi) for suminagashi, bookbinding, and calligraphy.

The Book Arts Web http://www.philobiblon.com/decoratedpaper.htm

This web site provides links to various marbling and paper decoration web sites as well as bookbinding and book conservation sites. This is perhaps the most comprehensive web site regarding book arts information.

Colophon Book Arts Supply http://home.earthlink.net/~colophon/

Don Guyot, an internationally renowned marbler, operates this web site which sells supplies, paints, and tools for traditional marbling and suminagashi. Don is an expert on the subject of suminagashi and sells trays, inks (sumi), ink stones (suzuri), Japanese sabaki brushes and sumifactant (a chemical agent which causes the ink to float on the surface of the water). A current catalog and price list can be downloaded as a PDF.

Daniel Smith http://www.danielsmith.com/

An excellent source of marbling paints, papers and other general art supplies. Daniel Smith paints and art supplies are of a very high quality and standard.

Galen Berry’s Marble Art http://members.aol.com/marbling/marbling/

An excellent source for marbling tools, paints, carragheenan, alum, and various sized marbling combs. Galen also sells a self-published manual entitled, The Art of Marbling on Paper and Fabric, which I highly recommend.

John Neal Bookseller http://www.johnnealbooks.com/

Excellent source for sumi inks, suminigashi kits, calligraphy supplies, bookbinding tools and a great selection of instructional books regarding illumination, calligraphy, marbling and bookbinding.

Skycraft Designs http://www.skycraft.com/

A good resource for marbling tools, supplies and marbled papers. Peggy Skycraft is an extremely talented marbler and her papers are sold throughout the world.

Society of Marbling http://www.marbling.org/

The Society of Marbling is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the art of marbling through the sponsorship of events and the development of educational resources and scholarships. If you want to keep current on marbling events, workshops, or news, then sign up on the web site and become a member of the Society of Marbling.

Suminagashi http://www.suminagashi.com/

This is one of the few web sites in English with information on the history and basic techniques of suminagashi. The site also provides good links to various Japanese art suppliers.

Suminagashi

Illustration from Tokutaro Yagi’s book, Suminagashi-Zome showing the process of dropping sumi inks onto water and fanning the concentric circles into jagged lines.

Turkish Marbling

These four photographs illustrate the process of producing a traditional combed nonpareil pattern on carrageenan size.

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Nonpareil

The nonpareil is created after a git-gel by using a finely spaced combed which pulls the colors into veins. Many designs are based on the nonpareil which remains a classic pattern used by bookbinders.

Waved Nonpareil

The waved nonpareil is simply a variation on a nonpareil pattern. A rake is pulled perpendicular to the finely toothed nonpareil pattern in a wave- like motion.

Peacock

The peacock, also called the bouquet, is perhaps the most famous of all traditional marble patterns.

Marbling Samples

Git-gel

Git-gel is Turkish for back-and-forth or to-and-fro. This marbling pattern is usually created prior to the more elaborate nonpareil patterns.

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Overmarbling

When one pattern is printed on top of another it is called overmarbling. Any combination of patterns can be combined to create unique and interesting overmarbled papers.

Shell Marble

The shell pattern was first used in the late eighteenth century and became very popular in the early twentieth century. Shell patterns replicate the varied colors, streaks and veins found in actual marble.

Suminagashi

Suminigashi refers to a technique of decorating a sheet of paper (washi) with ink patterns floating on the surface of water.

Spanish Wave

Spanish wave papers have a three dimensional appearance of draped fabric. This technique was supposedly discovered by a Spanish marbler who went to work drunk and placed his paper on the marbling tray with shaking hands resulting in a wave pattern.

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Diderot 2 illustration

From left to right• Marbling the edges of books.• Making a pattern with a stylus.• Folding paper.• Polishing marbled paper using a stone attached to a shaft fixed at the ceiling.• Polishing marbled paper.

Diderot Illustrations

Modern marblers use many of the same techniques and tools depicted in these two illustrations of a sevententh-century marbling shop. These illustrations first appeared in the famous Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (Paris, 1751-1765).

Diderot 1 illustration

From left to right• Grinding pigment to make ink.• Transferring on to paper a pattern made by dripping ink on to size.• Dripping ink on to size.• Using a comb to make a pattern.• Hanging marbled papers on a line for drying.• Making marbling size.

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For the modern cultural historian or social anthropologist, the nineteenth-century almanac in its myriad manifestations constitutes a yet undervalued and often richly multi-disciplinary resource for studying various academic disciplines in the larger context of cultural history. This seminar highlights the value of almanacs in broadly conceived research that focuses on the nineteeth century, the period that corresponds with the apogee of almanac publication diffusion in Europe. In examining various examples of almanacs, we shall consider intellectual history from a cultural perspective. Our premise is that the broader our analysis of any specific historical event, the clearer will be our understanding of the genealogy and interrelationship of ideas.

Biography

Madison U. Sowell, Scheuber and Veinz Professor of Humanities and Languages at BYU, received his Ph.D from Harvard in Romance Languages and Literatures. He chaired BYU’s department of French and Italian for 9 years and has published and lectured widely on topics ranging from Dante to Romantic-Era Almanacs. He has assisted in organizing various library exhibits, including those devoted to the Italian

Renaissance, the Art of Dance, and Nineteenth-Century Almanacs.

Secondary sources on almanacs:

Madison U. Sowell, “Romantic-Era Almanacs and Dance History Research” in Proceedings of the Society of Dance History Scholars, comp. Stephanie Rieke (Stoughton, WI: The Printing House, 2003): 112-15.

Madison U. Sowell, “Almanacs and Romantic Non-fictional Prose” in Non-fictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders, ed. Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoianu (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004): 321-33.

Selected examples of almanacs to be shown:

The Patriot’s Calendar, for the Year 1794, containing the usual English almanack … (London, 1794). This title page, which also serves as a table of contents,

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makes clear that this is a French Revolution reader, complete with patriotic music, historical documents, and time line of the Revolution.

Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1811. Der Liebe and Freundschaft gewidmet (Frankfurt am Main, 1811). This attractive leather-bound volume of a periodical dedicated to love and friendship contains poems, stories, and splendidly engraved vignettes showing activities associated with each month of the year.

Almanach de la Cour, de la Ville et des Departements pour l’ Année 1813 (Paris, 1813). The beautiful gilt-decorated binding of this court or civic almanac underscores the fact that these handy little volumes were not meant to be thrown away once the year was over. They contained information that was valuable far into the future and – as objects of great beauty – were highly collectable, both then and now.

Almanach dédié aux dames (Paris, 1811, 1821). The 1821 issue has a playful Cupid image on the title page and is bound in delicate silk with a matching slipcase. Only the slipcase shows any signs of nearly two centuries of careful handling. In addition to being handsomely bound, the 1811 issue (right) contains finely executed copper plate engravings, such as this one entitled “The Music Lesson.”

Nederlandsche Muzen-Almanak (Amsterdam, 1833). This Dutch almanac proves that pocketbooks of music and poetry were not just a French and German phenomenon. Throughout Europe, nobility and the bourgeoisie alike found pleasure, entertainment, and edification in these curious little books.

Kate Greenaway’s Almanack (London, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1890-1892, 1895). More art book than almanac, Kate Greenaway designed charming little collectable books for

Victorians. The two original drawings and presentation inscriptions shown here make these copies unique and pleasing.

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sTarry messengers: early prinTeD asTronomy

books for researChers, ColleCTors, anD aDmirers

Special Collections is home to some of the rarest astronomical texts in the world, many of which were printed between the establishment of Tycho Brahe’s observatory on the island of Hven in 1576 and Isaac Newton’s death in 1727. The centerpiece of this collection is the Library’s millionth-volume acquisition, the manuscript of the fixed-star catalog of the Prussian astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687). To commemorate this acquisition in 1971, Special Collections also collected and exhibited all of Hevelius’s printed works. The collection also includes many of the landmark works in the history of astronomy including Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus, Tycho Brahe’s Astronomiae instauratae, Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova, Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s Almagestum Novum, Galileo Galilei’s Dialogo and Isaac Newton’s Principia.

Special Collections also houses early astronomical texts that contain extensive marginalia. For example, in our holdings there is a series of comet tracts that deal with the comet of 1618. These tracts were originally owned and annotated by Peter Crüger, the teacher of Johannes Hevelius. These tracts from the library of Peter Crüger and other similar treasures appeal to researchers, collectors and admirers alike for their enduring value, what they tell us about early modern astronomers and their aesthetic appeal resulting from eye-catching woodcuts, engravings, attractive bindings and the interesting mix of both hand-written and printed records.

Early-printed astronomy books are some of the most sought-after items in the rare book market. While the prices of many of these books make them difficult to collect, there are rare astronomical texts that could be collected with smaller budgets. Special Collections, for example, collects pamphlets that describe comets seen during the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as short prognostications. Other more affordable texts include ephemeredes, heavenly poetry, early astronomy textbooks, as well as later editions, reprints and facsimiles of landmark books. One can search the inventories of multiple antiquarian bookdealers using abebooks.com or used.addall.com to find early astronomy books.

Biography

Derek Jensen is the Curator of the European Book Collections in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University with responsibilities for the History of Science, Early Printing, Renaissance and Reformation collections. He is currently completing his dissertation “The City of the Stars: The Science of the Stars in Danzig

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from Copernicus to Hevelius” at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied the history of science before joining Special Collections.

Histories

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. “The Book of Nature Transformed,” Part Three of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Gingerich, Owen. The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Coper-nicus. New York: Walker & Company, 2004.

________. The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in AstronomicalHistory.Cambridge, Mass.: Sky Publishing Corporation; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Montgomery, Scott L. The Moon and the Western Imagination. Tucson, Az.: The Uni-versity of Arizona Press, 1999.

Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science. 8 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1923-1958.

Volkoff, Ivan, Ernest Franzgrote, and A. Dean Larsen. Johannes Hevelius and His Catalogue of Stars: The Millionth-Volume Acquisition of the J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Library. Provo, Ut.: Brigham Young University Press, 1971.

Winkler, Mary G. and Albert Van Helden. “Johannes Hevelius and the Visual Language of Astronomy.” Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Moder Europe, eds. J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James, 97-116. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Bibliographies, Censuses, Lists

Gingerich, Owen. An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus (Nurem-berg, 1543 and Basel, 1566). Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2002.

Hellmann, C.D. The Comet of 1577. Its Place in the History of Astronomy. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1971.

Westman, Robert S. “The Reception of Galileo’s Dialogue: A Partial World Census of Extant Copies.” Novità celesti e crisi del sapere: Atti del Convegno Inter-nazionale di Studi Galileiani, ed. Paolo Galluzzi, 329-371. Firenze: Barbèra, 1984.

Zinner, Ernst. Geschichte und Bibliographie der astronomischen Literatur in Deutsch-land zur Zeit der Renaissance. Second Edition. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1964.

Websites

http://galileo.rice.edu/The Galileo Project. Houses under section “Library” the “Catalog of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries,” the web’s most excellent source of biographical information for early astronomers.

http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/index.htmlThe Newton Project. Hosts many original texts by Newton that are digitized and transcribed.

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/starrymessenger.htmlStarry Messenger: An Online History of Astronomy. Includes excellent pages on early modern books including pages specifically devoted to the books of Coperni-cus, Galileo, Kepler and Tycho.

Selected Titles from Books Shown in the Seminar

Ptolemy. Almagest. Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1515. Standard treatise on mathematical astronomy from the second century A.D. through the seventeenth century.

Copernicus, Nicolaus. De revolutionibus. Amsterdam: Wilhelm Janson, 1617. Third edition of the first full modern defense of the earth’s motion around the sun.

Brahe, Tycho. Astronomiae instauratae. Nuremberg: Levinus Hulsius, 1602. Tycho was known as the greatest observational astronomer during the sixteenth century before the invention of the telescope. He used large naked-eye instru-ments.

Kepler, Johannes. Astronomia nova. Heidelberg: G. Voegelinus, 1609. Contains Kepler’s “war on Mars” and his discovery that planets travel in elliptical orbits rather than circular ones.

______. Mysterium cosmographicum. Frankfurt: Tampach, 1621. Outline’s Kepler’s a priori argument that the spacing of the planets conforms to the spaces created by nesting spheres within the 5 regular solids.

______. Tabulae Rudolphinae. Ulm: Jonas Sauer, 1627. Twenty six years after the death of Tycho Brahe, Kepler was finally able to put into print Tycho’s catalog of 1,000 fixed stars and his planetary tables in this book.

Galilei, Galileo. Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi. Florence: Landini, 1632. The book that infuriated Pope Urban VIII in the Summer and Fall of 1632 leading to Galileo’s Inquisition trial in 1633 and lifetime sentence to house arrest.

Heveilus, Johannes. Selenographia. Danzig: Andreas Hünefeld, 1647. Hevelius saw in the moon features that resembled the Mediterranean region.

Huygens, Christian. Systema saturnium (The Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1659)What earlier appeared to be “three stars baked together” were Saturn and his rings.

Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Amsterdan, 1723.Second edition of Newton’s tour de force combining earthly physics with celestial mechanics. Codified here are his theories concerning cometary paths and empty space.

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We will begin with a tour of the Special Collections library exhibition “Wheels, Windmills &Webs: Don Quixote’s Library and the History of Reading,” which includes texts ranging from cuneiform tablets and illuminated manuscripts through the texts listed in Don Quijote’s library in chapter 6, to 18th, 19th, and 20th-century texts heavily influenced by Cervantes’s masterpiece. We will then discuss the realist and the metafictional modes of novelistic writing used by Cervantes in writing Don Quijote, and show how these modes work in later Western classics like Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and The Idiot.

Biography

Dale J. Pratt received his B.A. in 1990 from BYU (magna cum laude and University Honors), and was the university valedictorian. He did his graduate work at Cornell University, receiving a Ph.D in Romance Studies in 1994. He teaches courses on Spanish literature, literature and science, European realism, and Spanish Golden Age theater at BYU, where he is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. Since 2002, he and his wife, Valerie Hegstrom, have produced and toured with five full-length Golden Age Spanish plays for audiences in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. he is the author of two books, Signs of Sciences: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity Since 1868 (Purdue University Press, 2001) and Sueños, Recuerdos, Memoria: la metaficción y las novelas de Joaquín-Armando Chacón (Coordinación de Difusión Cultural/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1994), as well as articles on Spanish realist fiction, literature and science, Cuban and Spanish theater, and other topics.

Bibliography

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quijote. Trans. Burton Raffel. Ed. Diana de Armas Wilson. New York: Norton, 1999.

This Norton critical edition contains a new translation of Don Quijote plus numerous excerpts from important critical essays on the book as a whole and on specific episodes within the text.

Don QuixoTe anD The moDern narraTive

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Secondary Sources

Alter, Robert. Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. Berkeley: U California P, 1975.

Alter explores the metafictional aspects of Don Quijote in the chapter “The Mirror of Knighthood and the World of Mirrors,” a classic in Cervantine criticism.

Cascardi, Anthony J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

This volume includes chapters on the invention of the novel, Cervantes’s influence in Western letters, and the historical and social context, as well as a chronology and excellent bibliography.

Unamuno, Miguel de. The Life of Don Quijote and Sancho. Trans. Homer P. Earle. New York:Knopf, 1927. Original title: Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho, widely available in Spanish.

This book combines synoptic reviews of Don Quijote with ruminations on the meaning of life, humor, faith, tragedy and death by one of Spain’s greatest intellectuals,

Exhbition List

Amadís di Gaula [Amadís de Gaula] Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (dates unknown15th–16th century) 1560 Italian translation of 14th book

Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) 1565 Italian

Guzmán de Alfarache Mateo Alemán (1547�1614?) 1641 Spanish

Novelas ejemplares Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) 1625 Spanish

The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha:

Translated out of the Spanish; now newly corrected and amended Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) 1652 English (Thomas Skelton, translator)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) 1760 English (First edition, signed by Sterne)

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) 1896 English translation

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The sourCes anD Challenges

of The Joseph smiTh papers proJeCT:

The l. Tom perry speCial ColleCTions perspeCTive

Da v i d J. W h i t t a k e r

As part of the bicentennial of the birth of Joseph Smith, Jr., The Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter-day Saints has announced the preparation and publication of the papers of the founding prophet. This professionally edited series will include Joseph’s ten journals, over 1500 items of correspondence, all extant revelations and sermons, Joseph’s History and the legal documents relating to about 180 cases in which he was involved. When completed, the collected works will number over thirty volumes. It will provide the foundational texts of the life and work of Joseph Smith and will surely benefit all students of early Mormon history.

Participants in the seminar will discuss and learn information about the Project. They will also be able to understand the context of the life of Joseph Smith by viewing documents from the rich holdings of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. They will see the vision of the Joseph Smith Papers Project and understand the contributions that Special Collections is making toward its completion.

Biography

David J. Whittaker, Senior Librarian, has a Ph.D. in American History and has served as the Curator of Mormon and Western Manuscripts in the Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library for over twenty years. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of History, BYU. He has been a Beinecke Fellow at Yale University and a Senior Scholar-Librarian William F. Fulbright Fellow in the David and Mary Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library, London. He has served as the President of the Mormon History Association and has authored or co-authored seven books and over fifty academic articles. He is currently on partial leave from the Lee Library, serving as an Editor and Team Leader for the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He is married to Linda Struhs and they are the parents of four children and the grandparents of six.

I. Published Sources

A. Bibliographical Guides and Sources

Dean C. Jessee, “Sources for the Study of Joseph Smith,” in Mormon Americana: A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States ed. David J. Whittaker (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Studies Monographs, 1995), 7-28.

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David J. Whittaker, “Joseph Smith in Recent Research: A Selected Bibliography,” in Mormon Americana (1995), 29-44.Davis Bitton, “Selected Bibliography,” in Bitton, Images of the Prophet Joseph Smith

(Salt Lake City: Aspin Books, 1996 ), 171-96.Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume One, 1830-

1847 (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997).James B. Allen, Ronald W. Walker, and David J. Whittaker, Studies in Mormon History,

1830-1997, An Indexed Bibliography (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Dan Vogel, compiler and editor, Early Mormon Documents, 5 volumes (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996-2003).

LaMar C. Berrett, general editor, Sacred Places: A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1999- ). Four volumes-to-date, each devoted to a geographical area. Includes essays, maps, photographs., each volume edited with other specialists in early Mormon history.

B. Diaries and Personal Writings

Dean C. Jessee, compiler and editor, The Papers of Joseph Smith, 2 volumes (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989, 1992). A new, multi-volume edition is currently in preparation.

________. The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith (1984; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, Revised Edition, 2002 ).

Scott Faulring, compiler and editor, An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987).

C. Sermons/Discourses

Dean C. Jessee, “Priceless Words and Fallible Memories: Joseph Smith as Seen in the Effort to Preserve His Discourses,” Brigham Young University Studies 31 (Spring 1991):19-40.

Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. The Words of Joseph Smith:

Donald Q. Cannon, “Words of Comfort: Funeral Sermons of the Prophet Joseph

Smith,” in The Disciple as Witness, Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo: FARMS, 2000), 87-104.

“Lectures on Faith”. Lectures presented by Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith to the School of the Prophets, 1834-35, in Kirtland, Ohio. They were included in every edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, beginning with the 1835 edition; they were removed from the 1921 edition. For essays assuming Joseph Smith’s authorship, see The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective, ed. Larry E. Dahl and Charles D. Tate (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1990). For a study that questions that they represent Joseph Smith’s thought, see Noel B. Reynolds, “The Authorship Debate Concerning Lectures on Faith: Exhumation and Reburial,” in The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, (Provo: FARMS, 2000), 355-82.

“Articles of Faith.” These thirteen concise statements of the basic beliefs of the Latter-day Saints were included in the Wentworth Letter, first published in the Times and Seasons (March 1842), and eventually canonized as part of the Pearl of Great Price in 1880. For a closer look at their textual history see David J. Whittaker, “The ‘Articles of Faith’ in Early Mormon Literature and Thought,” in New Views of Mormon History, Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington ed. Davis Bitton and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), 63-92.

“King Follett Discourse.” Joseph Smith last General Conference discourse, delivered 7 April 1844. It presented an expansive view of the nature of God and the eternal possibilities of mankind. Several articles on in BYU Studies 18 (Winter 1978).

Truman G. Madsen, ed. The Concordance of the Doctrinal Statements of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: I. E. S. Publishing, 1985).

Joseph Fielding Smith, compiler, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1938).

D. “History of Joseph Smith”

Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ed. James Mulholland, Robert B. Thompson, William W. Phelps, Willard Richards,

George A. Smith, Wilford Woodruff, and later, B. H. Roberts, 6 volumes (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912; revised edition, 1956). In 1932 Roberts added a seventh volume to cover the years between Joseph Smith’s death in 1844 and 1847 when Brigham Young was officially sustained as the second president of the Church.

Dean C. Jessee, “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971):439-73.

________. “The Reliability of Joseph Smith’s History,” Journal of Mormon History 3 (1976): 23-46.

________. “Return to Carthage: Writing the History of Joseph Smith’s Martyrdom” Journal of Mormon History 8 (1981):3-19. Howard C. Searle, “Authorship of the History of Joseph Smith: A Review

Essay, “ BYU Studies 21 (Winter 1981):101-22.

E. Revelations

Milton V. Backman, Jr., Joseph Smith’s First Vision (1971; Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Revised Edition, 1980). Dean C. Jessee, “The Original Book of Mormon Manuscript,” BYU Studies 10

(Spring 1970):259-78.Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelations of Joseph Smith, A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants (1981; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985).Robert J. Matthews, “A Plainer Translation”: Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible, A History and Commentary (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1975).James R. Clark, The Story of the Pearl of Great Price (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1955).Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations, Texts and Commentary (Salt Lake

City: Signature Books, 1999).Brian Q. Cannon and the Staff of the BYU Studies [and based on the research of

Ronald O. Barney], “Priesthood Restoration Documents,” BYU Studies 35, No. 4 (1995-96):162-207.

Royal Skousen, The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text (Provo: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2001). 568 pp.

________. The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile

of the Entire Text in Two Parts, 2 volumes (Provo: FARMS, 2001), 1008 pp.John W. Welch, ed., Opening the Heavens, Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820-

1844 (Provo: BYU Press, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005).

F. Biographical Studies (Selected)

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His

Andrew Jenson, “Joseph Smith, The Prophet,” The Historical Record (Salt Lake City) 7, Nos. 1-3 (January 1888):353-576.

Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus, They Knew the Prophet (Salt Lake City: 1974).John Henry Evans, Joseph Smith, An American Prophet (New York: Macmillan, 1933).G. Homer Durham, Joseph Smith, Prophet Statesman (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1944)Donna Hill, Joseph Smith, The First Mormon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977).Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith,

Prophet’s Wife, “Elect Lady,” and Polygamy’s Foe, 1804-1879 (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984).

Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984).

________. Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005).________. “Joseph Smith and Culture.” A series of eight essays on various

aspects of Joseph Smith’s life and thought in Believing History, Latter-day Saint Essays, edited by Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 143-278.

Richard Lloyd Anderson, Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage: Influences 0f Grandfathers Solomon March and Asael Smith (1971; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, Provo: BYU Studies, Second Revised Ed., 2003).

Kyle R. Walker, “The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family: A Family Process Analysis of a Nineteenth-century Household,” (Ph.D. dissertation, BYU, 2001).

Chad M. Orton and William W. Slaughter, Joseph Smith’s America: His Life and Times (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005).

Progenitors for Many Generations (London: Published for Orson Pratt by S.W. Richards, 1853). The best scholarly edition is Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir ed. Lavina Fielding Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001).

TheContemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1990).

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Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975).Susan Easton Black and Charles D. Tate, Jr., eds. Joseph Smith: The Prophet, the Man

(Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1993).Larry C. Porter and Susan Easton Black, eds. The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988).Davis Bitton, Images of the Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Aspen Books, 1996).________. The Martyrdom Remembered, A One Hundred-fifty Year Perspective on the

Assassination of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Aspin Books, 1994).Marvin S. Hill, “Joseph Smith the Man: Some Reflections on a Subject of Controversy,” BYU Studies 21 (Spring 1981):175-86.Thomas G. Alexander, “The Place of Joseph Smith in the Development of

American Religion: A Historiographical Inquiry,” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978):3-17.

Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997). See also the valuable review essay by Richard Lloyd Anderson and Scott H. Faulring, “The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives,” FARMS Review of Books 10, no. 2 (1998):67-104.

D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy, Origins of Power (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, 1994).

Thomas D. Cottle and Patricia C. Cottle, Liberty Jail and the Legacy of Joseph (Portland, Oregon: Insight, 1998).

M. Ephraim Hatch, Joseph Smith Portraits: A Search for the Prophet’s Likeness (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1998).

Robert Remini, Joseph Smith, A Penguin Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2002).Mark L.McConkie, Remembering Joseph: Personal Recollections of those who knew the

Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003).Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister, Junius and Joseph, Presidential Politics and the

Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005).

II. Manuscript Sources in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Relating to or Containing material on Joseph Smith, Jr.

A. Major Collections

Newell K. Whitney Collection [VMSS 76]Extensive collection of an early Mormon bishop. Includes manuscript copies of earliest extant revelations given to Joseph Smith, financial records of the early Church in Kirtland, Ohio and Navuoo, Illinois. Also contains the account book of John Taylor relating to printing in Nauvoo.

Hyrum Smith Collection [VMSS 774]Papers of the brother of Joseph Smith. Includes diaries (1832-38), account books, legal and real estate records, some correspondence (including Hyrum’s letter from Liberty Jail in 1839), Hyrum’s Hebrew Bible and the Hyrum Smith family bible.

William W. Phelps Collection [VMSS 810]Papers of the early Mormon printer and editor, and political and religious writer for Joseph Smith during the Nauvoo period; especially valuable are the letters he sent his wife Sally in Missouri, from Kirtland, Ohio dating from 26 May 1835 to April 1836. Good detail. Also extracts from his journal, 28 November 1835-18 December 1835

Vinson Knight Account Book [MSS 70] Lists of transactions, Kirtland, Ohio, 1836-40, includes Joseph Smith.

Isaac Russell Family Collection [VMSS 497]Includes the earliest known letters (dating August-December 1837) of the first LDS missionaries to serve in England; also Parley P. Pratt family letters and letters of William Law to Isaac Russell, 1837-1840.

Joseph Young’s Narrative of the Haun’s Mill Massacre [VMSS 791]Original copy, dated 4 June 1839, of Brigham Young’s brother’s eyewitness account of the terrible events of 30 October 1838 in Caldwell County, MO when seventeen Latter-day Saints were killed by an extra-legal militia group led by Thomas Jennings. The massacre at Jacob Haun’s mill was the worst persecution suffered by Mormons in Missouri.

William Patterson McIntire Diary and Notebook [VMSS 806]Records (1840-1856) of a Nauvoo tailor, who observed the world

around him. Acquainted with Mormon leaders in Nauvoo, his record gives us details on the daily life of the city and there are at least nine references to Joseph Smith.

John D. Lee Journal [VMSS 449]Journal, December 1840-July 1841. Account of his mission to Tennessee. The only known journal of Lee not yet published.

Thomas Bullock Collection [VMSS 772]In addition to financial records, this collection contains his Nauvoo Journal, 31 August 1845-5 July 1846, which gives a detailed picture of Nauvoo, Illinois as the Mormons were beginning to abandon it under pressure of their enemies. Bullock had been appointed Nauvoo City Recorder on 8 December 1844, and he would continue to be an important recorder of Church history. This journal includes an account of the first fire in the Nauvoo Temple.

Bond, 18 September 1838 [VMSS 691] Bond, signed by Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and others before Judge Austin King.

Sutcliffe Maudsley. Artist [VMSS 787] Portraits of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, 1844. Pen and Ink.

Kirtland, Ohio, Justice of the Peace, Docket Book, 1841-1843 [VMSS 788]Legal history; this volume follows the one kept by Oliver Cowdery, now owned by the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

William Huntington Diary and Autobiography [VMSS 272] Includes information about Joseph Smith’s death.

Hosea Stout, Letter, 27 June 1844 [VMSS 127]Letter to Col. Harmon, ordering him to assemble the men of the Nauvoo Legion for inspection. Ironically, this same date Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed.

Jennetta Richards, Letter, 8 July 1844 [VMSS 781]Letter to her family, contains details of the events of Joseph Smith’s murder. Her husband, Willard, was in Carthage Jail with Joseph Smith at the time of his death.

Wilford Woodruff, Letter, 22 April 1845 [VMSS 696]Letter to Susannah Sangiovanni, giving insight into the feelings of the apostles after the death of Joseph Smith.

B. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (selected)

VMSS 8 [Letter of John Bernhisel, New York, to Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, 18 August 1841]

VMSS 9 [Manuscript copy of Doctrine & Covenants, Section 117, given on 8 July 1838 in Far West, MO; Item copied and signed by Lydia Granger]

VMSS 316 [Letter of Moses Martin, La Porte, IN to Joseph Smith, 7 November 1841]

VMSS 432 [Certificate, Emma Hale Smith, 17 July 1844. Emma accepts responsibility for the estate of her husband.]

VMSS 744 [Legal documents, Hancock County Court, 1847-48; includes statement of guardianship for the children of Joseph Smith after the Martyrdom]

MSS 69 [Kirtland Safety Society, Five dollar note, signed by Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon]

MSS SC 2464 [Promissory Note, signed by Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Oliver Cowdery, 1 September 1837, Kirtland, Ohio. For $287.05]

MSS 1443 [Hancock County Court Documents, 1839-1860. 750 documents, with index of material relating to Joseph Smith]

VMSS 716 [Nauvoo Legion, Redeemable Script, 25 July 1843. Signed by Joseph Smith]

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The prinTeD WorDof Joseph smiTh Jr.,

1830-1844L a r r y W. Dr a p e r

In this year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the participants in this seminar will view, examine, and discuss the publications that disseminated the words, doctrines, politics, and history of Joseph Smith, Jr. during his lifetime.

Biography

Larry W. Draper is Curator of Americana and Mormonism in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. In 1976 he received a B.A. in philosophy from California State University at Fresno. Two years later he received a Masters of Library Science from BYU, followed in 1988 by an M.A. in history, also at BYU. He worked for 18 years at the LDS Church Historical Department, first as a manuscript cataloger, then from 1985 to 1997 as rare book

librarian. He has held his present position since 1997.

Selected Bibliography

Crawley, Peter. “A bibliography of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York, Ohio, and Missouri.” BYU Studies 12 (summer 1974): 465–537.

———. A descriptive bibliography of the Mormon Church: Volume one, 1830–1847. Provo, Religious Studies Center, 1997.

———. “Joseph Smith and A Book of Commandments.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 42 (autumn 1980): 18–32.

Crawley, Peter and Chad J. Flake. Notable Mormon books, 1830–1857. An exhibition in conjunction with the sixth annual Mormon Festival of Arts. Provo, Utah, Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1974.

———. A Mormon fifty. An exhibition in the Harold B. Lee Library in conjunction with the annual conference of the Mormon History Association. Provo, Utah, Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1984. Ehat, Andrew F. and Lyndon W. Cook. The words of Joseph Smith. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, [1980].

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Flake, Chad J. and Larry W. Draper. A Mormon bibliography, 1830–1930. Books pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides relating to the first century of Mormonism. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, 2004.

Jessee, Dean C. The personal writing of Joseph Smith. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, [1984].

Web Source19th Century Mormon Publications

A few of the items found in Bibliography of books containing the printed words of Joseph Smith during his lifetime (see below) are available at this site with complete images of all pages and searchable text. Additional titles will be added to this web site over time.

Available online: http://relarchive.byu.edu/19th/index.html

Bibliography of books containing the printed words of Joseph Smith during his lifetime

The items listed below include books and church periodicals that contain the words of Joseph Smith published during his lifetime. The list does not include newspapers (except where the newspaper was published by the church). The list is extracted from: A Mormon bibliography, 1830–1930. Books pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides relating to the first century of Mormonism by Chad J. Flake and Larry W. Draper. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, 2004.

403. Bennett, John Cook. The history of the saints; or, an expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism. Boston, Leland & Whiting, New York, Bradbury, Soden, & Co., Cincinnati: E. S. Norris & Co., 1842. ii, 344p. 19cm. plates, 2 ports., plan. CSmH, CtY, DLC, ICN, MoInRC, NjP, NN, UHi, UPB, USlC, UU, WHi

468. Bible. N.T. Matthew 24. English. 1835? Inspired Version. Extract from the new translation of the Bible, it being the 24th chapter of Matthew; but in order to show the connection we will commence with the last verse of the 23rd chapter, vix: . . . Published for the benefit of the Saints. [Kirtland, Ohio?, 1835?]. Broadside. 30 x 20cm. UPB copy enclosed within ornamental border.^Possibly published as early as 1835 as it is reprinted in present form in John Corrill’s A brief history of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints published in 1839. Or possibly published as late as 1843 to combat the Millerite excitement. Type similar to the type of the Messenger and Advocate and the Elder’s Journal. Byrd 782, Crawley I:25. CtY, UPB, USlC 595. Book of Mormon. English. 1830. 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, [N.Y.], Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the author, 1830. iv, [5]–588, [2]p. 19cm. First edition has many variants: i.e. p. iv is listed as vi; p. 97 is poorly printed in some copies; p. 207, seven lines from the bottom exceeding reads exceding; p. 207, seven lines from the bottom, great reads grert; p. 201, the l is raised on many copies; p. 212 is printed as p. 122; p. 487 reads 48 on some copies; on p. 575, elder or priest reads elder priest. No order of printing has been determined at the present time. Crawley I:1. CLU-C, CoU, CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, IHi, IWW, MB, MH, MU, MoInRC, MWA, NjP, NjPS, NjPT, NN, OC, PP, PU, TxDaM-D, UHi, ULA, UPB, USlC, UU 596. Book of Mormon. English. 1837. The book of Mormon: an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi . . . Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. Kirtland, Ohio, Printed by O. Cowdery and Co., for P. P. Pratt and J. Goodson, 1837. [i–ii], [v]–vi, [7]–619, [2]p. 15cm. Second edition. Corrected by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. With a

new preface by Parley P. Pratt.^Pages 235–37 are misnumbered 335–37. Crawley I:35. CLU-C, CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, MH, NN, UHi, UPB, USlC 597. Book of Mormon. English. 1840. The book of Mormon. Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. Third Edition, carefully revised by the translator. Nauvoo, Ill., Printed by Robinson and Smith. Stereotyped by Shepard and Stearns, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1840. 2p.l., [7]–571, [2]p. 15cm. Published by Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, younger brother of Joseph Smith. In some copies, an index of vii pages has been added, not part of the original printing. Crawley I:83. CLU-C, CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, MoInRC, NjP, NN, UHi, UPB, USlC, WHi 598. Book of Mormon. English. 1841. The book of Mormon: an account written by the hand of Mormon upon the plates taken from the plates of Nephi . . . Translated by Joseph Smith, Jun. First European, from the second American edition. Liverpool , Printed by J. Tompkins for Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt. By order of the translator, 1841. 2p.l., [1]–634, [637]–643p. 14cm. Published under the guidance of Brigham Young, who did not seem aware of the American 1840 edition. Crawley I:98. CLU-C, CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, MH, NjP, NN, UPB, USlC, UU 599. Book of Mormon. English. 1842. The book of Mormon: Translated by Joseph Smith. Fourth American and second stereotype edition, carefully revised by the translator. Nauvoo, Ill., Printed by Joseph Smith, 1842. 2p.l., [7]–571, [2]p. 15cm. The only edition in which the Jr. or Jun. is dropped from Joseph Smith. His father died in September 1840. Crawley I:159. CLU-C, CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, NjP, NN, OC, DLC, UPB, USlC, UU, WHi

2854. Doctrine and Covenants. English. 1833. A Book of Commandments, for the government of the Church of Christ. Organized according to law, on the 6th of April, 1830. Zion [Independence, Mo.], Published by W. W. Phelps and Co., 1833. 160p. 12cm. Includes only five gatherings, to the end of chapter 65, p. 160. The destruction of The Evening and the Morning Star printing office ended printing for the Mormons in Independence. The printing office was attacked 20 July 1833 and most copies were destroyed. Three thousand copies were to be printed. Found in two states, with and without a border on title page. Crawley I:8. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, MoInRC, NN, TxDaM-D, UPB, USlC 2860. Doctrine and Covenants. English. 1835. Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: carefully selected from the revelations of God, and compiled by Joseph Smith, Junior, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, Frederick G. Williams, [presiding elders of said church.] Proprietors. Kirtland, Ohio, Printed by F. G. Williams & Co. for the proprietors, 1835. iv, [5]–257, xxv p. 16cm. First edition under title Doctrine and Covenants. First to include the Lectures on Faith, and many new revelations.^Although no authorship has clearly been established for the Lectures on Faith, it was principally written by Sidney Rigdon but attributed to Joseph Smith. Crawley I:22. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, MH, NjP, NjPT, NN, TxDaM-D, UHi, UPB, USl, USlC, UU, WHi 2861. Doctrine and Covenants. English. 1844. The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; carefully selected from the revelations of God. By Joseph Smith, president of said church. Second edition. Nauvoo, Ill., Printed by John Taylor, 1844. 1p.l., [5]–448p. 15cm. Byrd 896, Crawley I:236. CtY, ICN, MH, MoInRC, NN, OClWHi, UHi, UPB, USlC, WHi 2914a. Doctrine and Covenants. Section 59. English. 1834? Behold, blessed saith the Lord, are they who have come up unto this land with an eye single to

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my glory, according to my commandments. [Kirtland, Ohio?, 1834?]. Broadside. 25 x 18cm. In double column.^Printed in Kirtland, Ohio, before the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants. Crawley I:13. USlC

2914b. Doctrine and Covenants. Section 76. English. 1838? A striking and remarkable vision, disclosing the real and final state of man, after the period of his existence in this world, by Joseph Smith Junr, and Sidney Rigdon. Preston, Whittle’s, printers, [1838?]. Broadside. 45 x 29cm. Printed before the death of Joseph Smith, Sr. An Elder’s certificate with a similar border, dated 1838, printed in Preston suggests the date and place of printing of this broadside. Crawley I:52. USlC

2916f. Doctrine and Covenants. Section 88. English. 1834? Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you, who have assembled yourselves together to receive his will concerning you. [Kirtland, Ohio, 1834?]. Broadsheet. 34 x 25cm. In double columns. Printed in Kirtland before the publication of the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants. Includes Section 89 on p. [2]. Crawley I:12. UPB

2920a. Doctrine and Covenants. Section 101. English. 1834? Verily, I say unto you, concerning your brethren who have been afflicted, and persecuted, and cast out from the land of their inheritance. . . . [Kirtland, Ohio, 1834?]. Broadsheet. 32 x 20cm. In double columns.^Printed in Kirtland before the publication of the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants. Crawley I:11.

UPB, USlC 2921. Doctrine and Covenants. Section 109. English. 1836. Prayer, at the dedication of the Lord’s house in Kirtland, Ohio, March 27, 1836,—By Joseph Smith, Jr. president of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. [Kirtland, Ohio, 1836]. Broadsheet. 31 x 20cm. Crawley I:26. MoInRC, USlC 3126. Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Kirtland, Ohio; [Far West, Mo.], October 1837–August 1838. 1v. (4 nos. in 64p.). 25cm. First editor : Joseph Smith, Jr. Follows the Messenger and Advocate. Suspended December 1837–June 1838. Final issues (3, 4) printed in Far West, Missouri. Crawley I:39. CtY, CU-B, IWW, MoInRC, NN, UPB, USlC, WHi, nos. 1–3 3272. The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, Mo. [Kirtland, Ohio], June 1832–September 1834. 2v. (24 nos.) monthly . 30cm. Vol. 1, nos. 1–12 not paged continuously. Vol. 1, no. 1–vol. 2, no. 14 (issue numbers are continuous through both volumes) June 1832–July 1833 published at Independence, Mo.; edited by W. W. Phelps. Vol. 2, no. 15–vol. 2, no. 24, December 1833–September 1834, published at Kirtland, Ohio; edited by Oliver Cowdery. None published between July and December 1833.^Followed by Latter-day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Crawley I:3. CSmH, MoInRC nos. 1–14, UPB, USlC 3273. Evening and Morning Star. Kirtland, Ohio, 1832–34 [i.e., 1835–36]. 2v. (24 nos.) monthly . 20cm. A reprint of The Evening and the Morning Star with changes, published at

Kirtland, Ohio, from January 1835 to October 1836; nos. 1–11 were published by F. G. Williams & Co., nos. 12–24 by O. Cowdery. The numbers have the dates and places of publication of the original issue (nos. 1–14. Independence, Mo.; nos. 15–24, Kirtland, Ohio). Date and place of reprint is given at end of each number. Crawley I:17. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, UPB, USlC, UU

3613.Gooch, John, compiler. Death of the prophets Joseph and Hyram [sic] Smith, who were murdered while in prison at Carthage Ill., on the 27th day of June, A.D., 1844. Compiled, and printed for our venerable brother in Christ, Freeman Nickerson. . . . Boston, Printed by John Gooch, 1844. 12p. 22cm. Preface signed: J. G. Often listed under Freeman Nickerson. Crawley I:232. CtY, MH, UPB, USlC

3925. Hayward, John. The book of religions; comprising the views, creeds, sentiments, or opinions, of all the principal religious sects in the world, particularly of all Christian denominations in Europe and America, to which are added church and missionary statistics, together with biographical sketches. Boston, John Howard, 1842. 432p. 20cm. Other editions: 1843. DLC, IU, LU, MH, UPB; 1845. MH, NIC; 1848. OCl; 1853. PPL, TNDC; 1856. NN; 1857. DLC; 1858. DLC, PV, TNDC; 1860. ICN, KMK, MiU; 1861. OO, PP, PSt; 1873. OClWHi, PV. Includes “Mormonites, or Church of the Latter-day Saints,” p. 260B72. DLC, MWA, MoInRC, NN, UPB

4778. Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, Ohio , October 1834–September 1837. 3v. (36 nos. in 576p.). 25–28cm. Editors: Oliver Cowdery, John Whitmer, Warren A. Cowdery.^Published by F. G. Williams & Co. October 1834–May 1836; Oliver Cowdery, June 1936–January 1837; Joseph Smith, Jr. & Sidney Rigdon, February–March 1837; April 1837–September 1837; William Marks.

Succeeded The Evening and the Morning Star. Superseded by the Elders’ Journal. Crawley I:16. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, vol. 1–2, MH vol. 1–2, NN, UPB, USlC

4779. The Latter-day Saints Millennial Star. Manchester, [Liverpool], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain, 1840–. v. monthly, semimonthly, weekly. 23cm. illus. Monthly: May 1840–May 1845.^Semimonthly: June 15, 1845–April 15, 1852; Weekly: April 24, 1852–.^Published in Manchester, vol. 1, no. 1–vol. 2, no. 11, May 1840–March 1842. Published in Liverpool, vol. 2, no. 12–vol. 92, April 1842–1930. Crawley I:71. CLU vol. 1–56, 58–60; CSmH; CtY vol. 1–21, 31, 67; CU-B; MH; NjP vol. 1–17; ULA; UPB; USlC; WHi vol. 1–32, 34–65, 69–90, 93–94 5554a. Mormonism: or some of the false doctrines and lying abominations of the so-called Latter-day Saints confuted and exploded by the BibleCthe word of God. [Ormskirk, Printed by Leak and Hutton, 1842?]. 4p. 23cm. EnLBr, USlC

5727. Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, Hancock, Co., Ill., May 3, 1843–October 29, 1845. 3v. weekly. 52cm. Editor : John Taylor.^Successor to The Wasp.^Vol. 1:1–39 published by Taylor and Woodruff.^Whole numbering continues that of The Wasp. Nos. 3 and 5 (whole numbers 108 and 109) of Vol. 2 omitted in numbering. Crawley I:175. CSmH Je 24, 1844; CtY vol. 1, nos. 1–52, vol. 2, nos. 1–3, 6–52, vol. 3, nos. 1–23; ICHi Je 7, 28, 1843, Ja 10, 31, Mr 27, Ap 10, Je 26, Jl 10, Ag 7, 28, O 2, 23, 30, 1844, Ja-F, Mr 26, Ap 23–30, My 14–Je 18, Jl 2, 16, Ag 13–S 3, 17–O 1845; MWA Jl 3, 1844; NN D 27, 1843, Mr 6, 27–Ap 10, 24–M6 8, Je 19, Jl 17, 31, 1844, Ja 9–F 5, 19–26, Mr 12, 26–Ap 2, 30, My 21, Jl 9, S 24–O 1; UPB. vol. 1, nos. 1–52, vol. 2, nos. 2–3, 6–22, 24–32, 34–38, 41–52, vol. 3, nos. 3, 6, 14, 17, 19–21, 23; USlC comp.

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5728. Nauvoo Neighbor . Nauvoo Neighbor Extra. Monday morning, June 17, 1844. [Nauvoo, Ill., 1844]. Broadside. 52 x 44cm. Contains proceedings of Nauvoo City Council relating to the Expositor and includes Joseph Smith’s order to destroy the Expositor press. Byrd 882, Crawley I:223. USlC 6041. Packard, Noah. Political and religious detector : in which Millerism is exposed, false principles detected, and truth brought to light. By N. Packard, minister of the gospel. Medina, Ohio, Printed by Michael Hayes, 1843. 40p. 20cm. “Mormonism revealed! The kingdom divided against itself cannot stand,” p. 10–16. Crawley I:177. ICU, UPB, USlC 6501. Pratt, Orson. A [sic] interesting account of several remarkable visions, and of the late discovery of ancient American records. By O. Pratt, minister of the gospel. Edinburgh, Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, MDCCCXL [1840]. 31p. 18cm. Cover title: An interesting account . . . In yellow printed wrappers. Crawley I:82. CtY, CU-B, MoInRC, MoK, UPB, USlC

6501a. ———. (same under title) Interesting account of several remarkable visions, and of the late discovery of ancient American records. Edinburgh, Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, MDCCCXL [1840]. 31p. 18cm. Crawley I:82. USlC

6502. ———. (same under title) An interesting account of several remarkable visions, and of the late discovery of ancient American records. By O. Pratt, minister of the gospel. [First American edition.]. New York, Joseph W. Harrison, printer, 1841.

36p. 17cm. In yellow printed wrappers. On back wrapper is printed Philo Dibble’s hymn: The happy day has rolled on. Crawley I:109. CSmH, ICHi, MH, MWA, NjP, NN, UPB, USlC, UU

6503. ———. (same) [Second American edition]. An interesting account of several remarkable visions, and of the late discovery of ancient American records. By O. Pratt, minister of the gospel. [Second American edition]. New York, Joseph W. Harrison, 1841. 36p. 17cm. In yellow printed wrappers. On back wrapper is printed Philo Dibble’s hymn: The happy day has rolled on. Crawley I:110. NN, UPB, USlC

6504. ———. (same) [Third American edition.]. An interesting account of several remarkable visions, and of the late discovery of ancient American records. By O. Pratt, minister of the gospel. [Third American edition.]. New York, Joseph W. Harrison, printer, 1842. 36p. 17cm. In brown printed wrappers. Crawley I:147. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, MoInRC, NN, UHi, UPB, USlC 6772. The Prophet. New York, Board of Control of the Society for the Diffusion of Truth, May 18, 1844–May 24, 1845. 1v. (52 nos.) weekly. 56cm. Succeeded by New York Messenger which continued its voluming. Successive editors: George T. Leach edited nos. 1–9; William Smith nos. 10–26; Sam Brannan, nos. 27–50; and Parley P. Pratt, nos. 51–52. Crawley I:211. CtY Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9–10, 12–15, 17, 19–24, 26–35, 37–38, 40–52; MH, NN, UPB Nos. 1–3, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, 31, 33–35, 41, 43, 45, 47–51; USlC, WHi

7285. Rigdon, Sidney. Theology. Lecture first. On the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Of faith. [Kirtland, Ohio, 1835]. Broadside. 34 x 26cm. In three columns. The first printing of the initial section of the Lectures on Faith as it later appeared in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. Crawley I:20. USlC7440. Rupp, Israel Daniel. He pasa ekklesia. An original history of the religious denominations at present existing in the United States. Containing authentic accounts of their rise, progress, statistics and doctrines. Written expressly for the work by eminent theological professors, ministers, and lay-members, of the respective denominations. Projected, compiled and arranged by I. Daniel Rupp, of Lancaster, Pa. . . . Philadelphia, J. Y. Humphreys; Harrisburg, Clyde and Williams, 1844. viii, [9]B734p. 24cm. illus. Published under title: History of all the religious denominations in the United States. Harrisburg, John Winebrenner, 1848. MH; 1849. USlC; Published under title: The religious denominations in the United States. Philadelphia, C. Desilver, 1859. DLC, NN. Latter-day Saints, by Joseph Smith, p. 404B10. Howes R507. CSmH, CtY, DLC, ICN, MH, MoInRC, MoU, NjP, NjR, NN, UHi, ULA, UPB, USlC, UU, ViU, WHi

7953. Smith, Joseph, 1805–1844. Correspondence between Joseph Smith, the prophet, and Col. John Wentworth, editor of “The Chicago Democrat,” and member of Congress from Illinois; Gen. James Arlington Bennet, of Arlington House, Long Island, and the Honorable John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina. In which is given, a sketch of the life of Joseph Smith, the rise and progress of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and their persecutions by the state of Missouri: with the peculiar views of Joseph Smith, in relation to political and religious matters generally; to which is added a concise account of the present state and prospects of the city of Nauvoo. New York, Published by John E. Page and L. R. Foster, Elders in the Church of Latter Day Saints, J. W. Harrison, printer, 1844. 16p. 23cm.

Preface dated: New York, February, 1844.^In double columns. Crawley I:199. CSmH, CtY, NN, USlC

7956. ———. General Joseph Smith’s appeal to the Green Mountain boys, December, 1854. Nauvoo, Ill., Taylor and Woodruff, printers, 1843. 7p. 24cm. At head of title: Times and Seasons—Extra. Byrd 818, Crawley I:187. DLC, ICN, MBAt, MH, MoInRC, USlC

7957. ———. General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. Nauvoo, Ill., John Taylor, printer, 1844. 12p. 24cm. First published in February 1844. In May–June it was reprinted in various cities in the United States. In May it was printed in the Times and Seasons and then reprinted in an eight-page pamphlet. Byrd 897, Crawley I:201. CtY, ICN, IHi, MoS, OC, USlC

7957a. ———. (same) General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. Chicago, Ill., Ellis & Fergus, Book and Job printers, 1844. 12p. 21cm. Crawley I:213. UPB, USlC

7958. ———. (same under title) Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. Philadelphia, Printed by Brown, Bicking & Guilbert, 1844. 12p. 23cm. Crawley I:216. CtY, USlC 7959. ———. (same) General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. Nauvoo, Ill., John Taylor, printer, 1844.

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8p. 26cm. In double column. Printed from the type setting of the Nauvoo Neighbor for May 8, 1844. It was then published in the Times and Seasons, from the same type, but with some corrections. Byrd 898, Crawley I:209. UPB, USlC

7959a. ———. (same) General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government oe [sic] the United States. Nauvoo, Ill., Printed by John Taylor, 1844. 8p. 24cm. Reprinted from the Times and Seasons of May 15, 1844 with the same type, with a new running title and title page.^Error on title page: third “of ” misspelled “oe.”. Crawley I:210. MoInRC, UPB, WHi

7960. ———. (same) General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. Pontiac, Mich., Jacksonian Print., 1844. 8p. 25cm. Crawley I:215. UPB, USlC

7961. ———. (same) General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. [n.p., 1844]. 11p. 22cm. Crawley I:218. MoInRC, USlC

7962. ———. Gen. Joseph Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. An appeal to the Green Mountain Boys. Correspondence with the Hon. John C. Calhoun. Also a copy of a memorial to the Legislature of Missouri. . . . New York, E. J. Bevin, printer, 1844. 41p. 22cm. At head of title: Americans read!!!^Memorial dated: Dec. 10, 1838. Crawley I:214.

CSmH, CtY, IHi, USlC

7966. ———. (same under title) Views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States. By General Joseph Smith, of Nauvoo, Illinois. Re-published by John E. Page, elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Pittsburgh, 1844. 8p. 24cm. Caption title. Crawley I:217. CtY, DLC, MoInRC, NN, UPB, USl, USlC 7994. ———. Reply of Joseph Smith, to the letter of J. A. B.—of A—n House, New York. Liverpool, Published by R. Hedlock & T. Ward, [1844]. 24p. 15cm. The letter of James Arlington Bennett of Arlington House is included. Publication announced in Millennial Star, February 1844, p. 160. Crawley I:198. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, MH, UHi, UPB, USlC 8000. ———. The voice of truth, containing General Joseph Smith’s correspondence with Gen. James Arlington Bennett; appeal to the Green Mountain Boys; correspondence with John C. Calhoun, Esq.; views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States; pacific innuendo, and Gov. Ford’s letter ; a friendly hint to Missouri, and a few words of consolation for the “Globe;” also, correspondence with the Hon. Henry Clay. . . . Nauvoo, Ill., Printed by John Taylor, 1844 [1845]. 64p. 25cm. Cover title: The voice of truth, containing the public writings, portrait, and last sermon of President Joseph Smith. Wrapper dated 1845. In yellow printed wrappers. The Clay correspondence ends at p. 59, and an appendix, p. 59–64, contains “Joseph Smith’s last sermon, delivered at the April conference, 1844.” On back cover is a hymn, “The cap-stone,” anti-Rigdonite in character, with errata note, which was published in the Times and Seasons, August 1, 1845. Byrd 899, Crawley I:271. CtY, DLC, ICN, IHi, MH, MoInRC, MoKU, NN, UHi, UPB, USlC 8955. The Times and Seasons. Containing a compendium of intelligence

pertaining to the upbuilding of the kingdom of God and the signs of the times, together with a great variety of useful information, in regard to the doctrines, history, principles, persecutions, deliverances, and onward progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nauvoo, [Ill.], 1839–1846. 6v. monthly. 23cm. illus., plates, fold. facsim. Editors: Don Carlos Smith, Ebenezer Robinson, Joseph Smith, John Taylor, etc.^Title from volume 4. In vol. 4, some copies have the word compendium misspelled “ocmpendium.”^Vol. 5, no. 23 misnumbered, no. 22 in some copies. Crawley I:60. CSmH, CtY, CU-B, DLC, ICN, MH, NN, UHi, ULA, UPB, USl, USlC, UU, WHi 9625. The Wasp. Nauvoo, Ill., April 16, 1842–April 26, 1843. 1v. weekly. 44cm. Editors: Elder William Smith; John Taylor. Succeeded by the Nauvoo Neighbor, May 3, 1843. Crawley I:148. CtY; MWA Aug 27, 1842; NN Jul 2, 1842; UPB Oct 8, 15, Dec 3, 17, 24, 1842, Jan 7, 21, 28, Mar 1, 8, Apr 12, 1843; USlC

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L i n d a Br o w n a n d r u s s Ta y l o r

Books are collectable for many reasons. Sometimes it’s the content. Sometimes it’s the author. And sometimes it’s that little something added by the owner, the author, or someone presenting it to a friend. Join Linda Brown and Russ Taylor as they discuss those added “somethings” that make books interesting, unique, and collectable, using examples from the Victorian Collection.

Biographies

Linda W. Brown is the Rare Book Cataloger and Curator of the eight British and American literature collections housed in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. In 1968 Linda started working in the Lee Library as an original book cataloger. In 1988 she was made rare book cataloger and then curator in 2002. Linda graduated from Utah State University with a BS and has done graduate work at BYU. She has attended several sessions at Rare Book School held annually at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. In October 2004, Linda lectured at the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference on Victorian children’s literature and in July 2005, she lectured and exhibited at the Louisa May Alcott Conference held at BYU.

Russ Taylor has been Supervisor of Reference Services at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections of BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library since 1999. Prior professional work includes 15 years as a corporate speechwriter, three years as assistant curator of Special Collections at BYU and temporary positions as reference librarian at Mary Washington College (Fredericksburg, Virginia) and Anoka-Ramsey Community College (Coon Rapids, Minnesota), and as a contract library cataloger for Advanced Information Consultants (Minneapolis, Minnesota). To round out his professional career, he has also worked as a bull whacker and ox drover for the Minnesota State Historical Society at the Oliver Kelly Historic Farm in Elk River, Minnesota, and at “This Is The Place” Heritage Park in Salt Lake City.

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Robin de Beaumont. (London book dealer and prominent book collector in out of print, rare, used, antiquarian and hard to find books.)rdebooks@aol.com

Recommended Secondary Sources and Bibliographies:

L. Tom Perry Special Collections. Register to the David Birckersteth Magee (1905- 1977) Collection of Victorian and Edwardian Manuscripts (1812-1952), by Russ Taylor and LeGrand Baker. Provo, Utah: L. tom perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 2003.

Magee, David Bickersteth. Victoria R.I.: A Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Original Drawings. San Francisco: Antiquarian Books, 1969-1970. 3 vols.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing. London: Faber & Faber, 1963.

Mitchell, Sally and others, eds. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland reference library of social science, vol. 438. New York: Garland, 1988.

Shattock, Joanne, ed. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 4, 1800- 1900. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-

Sutherland, John. Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.

A Sampling of items shown in this session:

Printed Items

Author’s books with their written notations

Browning, Robert. Bells and Pomegranates. London: E. Moxon, 1841-1846. Browning’s copy with his name on the title page and corrections throughout in his hand.

Ruskin, John. Letters From John Ruskin. London: Privately Printed, 1894. Ruskin’s copy with his Brantwood Ex Libris bookplate and ms.shelf location in his library. Laid in is check signed by Ruskin.

Books containing bookplates

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: G. Newnes, Ltd., 1902. Doyle’s copy with his bookplate.

Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. London: Macmillan Company, 1903-1908. Bookplate of Jerome Kern.

Books containing letters

Dickens, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Presentation copy and letter signed by the author mounted in the book.

Eliot, George. Romola. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. Letter signed by the author mounted in the book.

Books containing original illustrations

Greenaway, Kate. Almanack for 1890. London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1889. Presentation copy to the Empress Frederick of Germany and original watercolor illustration by Greenaway.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Rebecca and Rowena. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Presentation copy from the author with two original pen and ink drawings.

Books containing presentation copies

Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Presentation copy from the author to his brother, Skeffington Hume Dodgson.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Underwoods. London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. Presentation copy from the author to Dr. Brandt, one of the physicians who attended Stevenson during his numerous illnesses.

Books containing written notations

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. London: W. Pickering, 1839. Contains numerous notations about the original manuscript owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Also contains fifteen pencil drawings and twenty nine leaves of manuscript additions bound in.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. The New Sketch Book. London: A. Rivers, 1906. Presentation copy from the editor, Robert Garnett. Contains his four page letter, printed book reviews, various written notations and other pertinent matter throughout the book.

Miscellaneous

Browning, Robert. Asolando. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1890. Mounted in the book is Browning’s funeral program, held in Westminster Abbey in 1889.

Stevens, Thomas. The Crystal Palace. Coventry: Stevengraph Work, ca. 1880. Silk woven picture of the Crystal Palace, site of the Great Exhibition, held in London in 1851.

Manuscript items

Letters

Dickens, Charles. Handwritten letter to his sister-in-law. To “My Dearest Georgy” (Georgina Hogarth), dated May 1861. Georgina Hogarth was possibly closer to Dickens than any other woman in his life and was alone with him when he had the stroke that killed him.

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Nightingale, Florence. Handwritten to Dr. Joseph Bell dated 10 South St. Park Lane W., “June 28/87.” Letter written to a Scottish doctor who gave lectures to the nurses at the Edinburgh Infirmary, permitting him to dedicate a publication to her.

Original illustrations

Beardsley, Aubrey. Original drawing for a chapter opening of Le Morte D’Arthur. Pen and ink, mounted and framed. [1893]

Browne, Hablot Knight. Pencil and watercolor drawing to illustrate Charles Dickens’ novel, The Personal History of David Copperfield.

Original manuscripts

Baring-Gould, Sabine. Original handwritten manuscript of Three Kings Rode From the Orient Land. This man of letters is famous as the author of “Onward Christian Soldiers.”

Bridges, Robert. Original handwritten manuscript of “Hymn of Nature” (published as “Song of Darkness and Light”).

Miscellaneous

Carroll, Lewis. A group of eight original photographs of friends, mostly children, all formerly in Carroll’s possession with printed ticket and with notes in his hand identifying subjects and dates.

Gordon, Charles George. Draft of a telegram in his handwriting [Khartoum, 1884].

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Bl a i n e Hu d s o n

Blaine Hudson, a successful businessman and entrepreneur in Utah Valley, will discuss his personal philosophy of collecting Mormon books and the methods he used over his many years of collecting. He will also show examples from his very significant Mormon book collection.

Biography

Blaine T. Hudson was the owner of Hudson Printing Company, a nationally-recognized company, from 1971 to his retirement in the early nineties. Under his direction, this company grew from a small business into a successful corporation. He and his wife Barbara served as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1987 in Dublin, Ireland, and as President of the California Anaheim

Mission from 1993-96.

Books to be shown by Blaine Hudson

Book of Mormon (Palmyra, 1830), with two holography letters from the typesetter, John H. Gilbert, pasted in

A book of commandments (Independence, 1833)

PRATT, Parley Parker. The millennium, a poem (Boston, 1835)

PRATT, Parley Parker. A voice of warning (New York, 1837)

Elders’ Journal (Kirtland and Far West, 1837-38)

Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, 1839-46), the British Mission set

PRATT, Orson. A interesting account of several remarkable visions (Edinburgh, 1840)

Millennial Star, vol. 5, Wilford Woodruff ’s copy with his and Heber C. Kimball’s The word of the Lord to the citizens of London (London, 1841) bound in at the end

The following lines were composed by Mrs. Mary Matthews (Nauvoo? 1841?)

my personal ColleCTing of mormon books

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LITTLE, Jesse Carter, and George Bryant Gardner. A collection of sacred hymns (Bellows Falls, Vt., 1844)

Poetical facts (n.p., 1844?)

A circular, of the high council (Nauvoo, 20 January 1846)

General epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles (St. Louis, 1848)

GLEDHILL, James. A Mormons song (Manchester? 1849?)

Deseret News (Salt Lake City, 1850-51), vol. 1

Pearl of Great Price (Liverpool, 1851), in the original wrappers

Deseret News,—Extra (Salt Lake City, 14 September 1852)

PEIRCY, Frederick, and James Linforth. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (Liverpool, 1855), in the fifteen original parts with green wrappers

Circular for the ship Horizon (Liverpool, 1856)

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