(MORMONS) Pratt Orson; editor The Seer

Sale 2404 - Lot 197

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(MORMONS.) Pratt, Orson; editor. The Seer. Volume I, #1-12 and Volume II, #1-6, complete American first edition, lacking only the two final numbers published in Liverpool. 288 pages. 8vo, unmatched group of disbound issues; the first two cropped on bottom edge, some with moderate foxing or wear, lacking the final leaf of November 1853, the last two badly ink-stained. (MRS) Washington, January 1853 to June 1854

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A monthly periodical with an emphasis on the defense of polygamy, a practice which had first been espoused in print by the Mormons in August 1852 (see the note to Crawley 734). Flake 7609; Sabin 64961.