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A. Dean Larsen
BOOK COLLECTING CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 3-4, 2005
L . To m Pe r r y S p e c i a l C o l l e c t i o n s , H a r o l d B . L e e L i b r a r y, B r i g h a m Yo u n g U n i ve r s i t y
A. Dean Larsen
NOVEMBER 3-4, 2005
A. DEAN LARSEN RARE BOOK COLLECTING CONFERENCE. L. TOM PERRY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. HBLL 1130. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNVERSTIY. PROVO, UT 84602
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Table of Contents
A. Dean Larsen
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
Dear Conference Attendees:
On behalf of the Harold B. Lee Library, welcome to the third annual Special Collections’ 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 Conservator 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.
Welcome
The conference is named after A. Dean Larsen. As a Gifts Librarian and as Associate 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 relationships 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 generously endow this conference as a means of remembering Dean, and his contribution 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. Olsen
University Librarian
Scott Duvall
Co-conference Founder
Assistant University Librarian
Brad Westwood
Co-conference Founder
Chair, Special Collections
A. Dean Larsen
Memorial and Biography
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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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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.
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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
Friday, November 4th
Conference
Thursday, November 3rd
Pre-Conference
10:00-12:00
or
1:00-3:00
The Art of Paper Marbling and Japanese Suminigashi by Mark Pollei
Conservation Lab, Rm. 3452 HBLL
Lunch
BYU Dining Options: Skyroom, Museum Cafe, Cougareat
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.”
Paper Marbling And
Japanese Shuminagashi
Mark Pollei
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 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
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.
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________. 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).
McKay, Barry. Patterns and Pigments in English Marbled Papers. Oxford, UK: The
Plough Press, 1988.
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.
Muir, Ann. The Year in a Marblers Workshop: Harvesting Colour. Introduction by
Barry McKay. Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 2000.
Maurer-Matison and Jennifer Philippoff. Paper Art: The Complete Guide to Papercraft
Techniques. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997.
Nevins, Iris. Varieties of Spanish Marbling: A Handbook of Practical Instruction with
Twelve Original Marbled Samples. Newton, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1991.
Miura, Einen. The Art of Marbled Paper. New York: Kodansha America, Inc., 1990.
Sumner, James. The Mysterious Marbler. North Hills, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1976.
Narita, Koyofusa. A Life of Ts’ai Lung and Japanese Paper-Making. Tokyo: The Paper
Museum, 1980.
Wakeman, Geoffrey. English Marbled Papers. Leicestershire, UK: Plough Press,
1979.
Nevins, Iris. Traditional Marbling. Sussex, NJ: Published by Iris Nevins, 1988.
Weisse, Franz. The Art of Marbling. Translated by Richard Wolfe. Newtown, PA:
Bird and Bull Press, 1980.
Reese, Jane H. Making Your Own Marbled and Decorated Papers. London: New
Holland Ltd., 1996.
Wolfe, Richard J. Introduction. Three Early French Essays on Paper Marbling 16421765. Newtown, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1987.
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.
––––––––. 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.
Heyeck, Robin. Marbling at the Heyeck Press. Woodside, CA: The Heyeck Press,
1986.
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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.
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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
Turkish Marbling
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.
These four photographs illustrate the process of producing a traditional combed
nonpareil pattern on carrageenan size.
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Marbling Samples
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Git-gel
Nonpareil
Waved Nonpareil
Peacock
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.
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.
The waved nonpareil is simply a variation on a nonpareil pattern. A rake
is pulled perpendicular to the finely toothed nonpareil pattern in a wavelike motion.
The peacock, also called the bouquet, is perhaps the most famous of all
traditional marble patterns.
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Spanish Wave
Overmarbling
Shell Marble
Suminagashi
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.
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.
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.
Suminigashi refers to a technique of decorating a sheet of paper (washi)
with ink patterns floating on the surface of water.
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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
Diderot 2 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.
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.
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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
Finding Hidden
Treasures In Almanacs
Ma d i s o n U. So w e l l
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 Nonfictional 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.
Victorians. The two original drawings and presentation inscriptions shown
here make these copies unique and pleasing.
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
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Special Collections is home to some of the rarest astronomical texts in the world,
many of which were printed between the establishment ofTycho 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.
Starry Messengers:
Early Printed Astronomy
Books for Researchers,
Collectors, and Admirers
De r e k Je n s e n
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.
Bibliographies, Censuses, Lists
Selected Titles from Books Shown in the Seminar
Gingerich, Owen. An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566). Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2002.
Ptolemy. Almagest. Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1515.
Standard treatise on mathematical astronomy from the second century A.D.
through the seventeenth century.
Hellmann, C.D. The Comet of 1577. Its Place in the History of Astronomy. Reprint.
New York: AMS Press, 1971.
Gingerich, Owen. The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York: Walker & Company, 2004.
Westman, Robert S. “The Reception of Galileo’s Dialogue: A Partial World Census
of ExtantCopies.” Novità celesti e crisi del sapere: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Galileiani, ed. Paolo Galluzzi, 329-371. Firenze: Barbèra,
1984.
________. The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in AstronomicalHistory.
Cambridge, Mass.: Sky Publishing Corporation; Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
Zinner, Ernst. Geschichte und Bibliographie der astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur Zeit der Renaissance. Second Edition. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann,
1964.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago
and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Websites
Montgomery, Scott L. The Moon and the Western Imagination. Tucson, Az.: The University 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.
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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.html
The Newton Project. Hosts many original texts by Newton that are digitized and
transcribed.
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/starrymessenger.html
Starry Messenger: An Online History of Astronomy. Includes excellent pages on
early modern books including pages specifically devoted to the books of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Tycho.
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.
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 instruments.
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.
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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
Don Quixote And
The Modern Narrative
Da l e Pr a t t
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 JoaquínArmando 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.
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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,
Guzmán de Alfarache
Mateo Alemán (15471614?)
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
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
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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.
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
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, 18301847 (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 volumesto-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:
TheContemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
(Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1990).
Donald Q. Cannon, “Words of Comfort: Funeral Sermons of the Prophet Joseph
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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), 35582.
“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, 18201844 (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
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).
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).
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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
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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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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.
The Printed Word
Of Joseph Smith Jr.,
1830-1844
L a r r y W. Dr a p e r
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 Source
19th 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
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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
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
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.Âlthough 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.
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?].
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?].
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?].
In double columns.^Printed in Kirtland before the publication of the
1835 Doctrine & Covenants.
Crawley I:11.
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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].
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 Latterday 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].
Contains proceedings of Nauvoo City Council relating to the Expositor
and includes Joseph Smith’s order to destroy the Expositor press.
USlC
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
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
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
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 . . .
Crawley I:82.
CtY, CU-B, MoInRC, MoK, 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
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
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
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.
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7285. Rigdon, Sidney. Theology. Lecture first. On the doctrine of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Of faith. [Kirtland, Ohio, 1835].
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.
USlC
7440. 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.În 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.
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.
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.
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.Êrror on title page: third “of ”
misspelled “oe.”.
Crawley I:210.
MoInRC, UPB, WHi
government of the United States. Pontiac, Mich., Jacksonian Print., 1844.
8p. 25cm.
Crawley I:215.
UPB, USlC
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.
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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.
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.
CtY, DLC, ICN, IHi, MH, MoInRC, MoKU, NN, UHi, UPB, USlC
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 Latterday 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
8955. The Times and Seasons. Containing a compendium of intelligence
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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
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Biographies
Reliquiae Victorianae:
Or Scraps of Victorian Life
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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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Websites
Recommended Websites Related to Book Collecting
The Nineteenth Century (In association with The British Library. Search the
largest and most important collections of nineteenth-century works for research
and teaching.
http://c19.c wyck.com
The British Library. (The British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. The collection includes 150 million items, in most known languages.)
http://www.bl.uk/
Victoria snd Albert Museum. (The National Art Library, a division of the V&A
Museum is both a major reference library and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s
curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book.)
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collecting/print_books/Print_books/books.htm
Quaritch Rare Books and Manuscripts. (Quaritch has been selling rare books and
manuscrpits since 1847 and is one of the original members of the Antiquarian
bookseller’s Association.
http://www.quaritch.com
Robin de Beaumont. (London book dealer and prominent book collector in out
of print, rare, used, antiquarian and hard to find books.)
[email protected]
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.
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 bookplates
Books containing written notations
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: G. Newnes, Ltd.,
1902.
Doyle’s copy with his bookplate.
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.
Recommended Secondary Sources and Bibliographies:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections. Register to the David Birckersteth Magee (19051977) 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, 18001900. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-
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.
Sutherland, John. Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
University Press, 1989.
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.
English Literature on the Web. (An association of literary scholars and critics.)
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jP/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
A Sampling of items shown in this session:
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Rebecca and Rowena. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Presentation copy from the author with two original pen and ink drawings.
abebooks.com. (Abebooks is the world’s largest online marketplace for books,
with over 50 million classic collectible books.)
http://www.abebooks.com
Bookfinder.com. (Over 60 million new, used, rare and out of print books.)
http://www.bookfinder.com
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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.
Miscellaneous
Browning, Robert. Asolando. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1890.
Mounted in the book is Browning’s funeral program, held in Westminster
Abbey in 1889.
Books containing original illustrations
Betram Rota Ltd. (Antiquarian booksellers specializing in modern first editions,
private press books, literary autographs & manuscripts.)
http://www.bertramrota.co.uk
Printed Items
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.
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
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.
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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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 nationallyrecognized 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 Latterday Saints in 1987 in Dublin, Ireland, and as President of the California Anaheim
Mission from 1993-96.
Books to be shown by Blaine Hudson
My Personal Collecting
of Mormon Books
B l a i n e Hu d s o n
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?)
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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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Library Maps
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Third Floor (Ground Level)
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Fourth Floor
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Fith Floor
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