(MORMONS) Smith Joseph; translator Book of Mormon An Account

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(MORMONS.) Smith, Joseph; translator. Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi. 12mo, contemporary morocco, front cover detached, worn at extremities; inked stamp of Benreoch House, Arrochar [Scotland] on front pastedown. Liverpool, 1852

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Third European edition, and the first printed anywhere with numbered paragraphs. First state, with colophon on verso of page 563. "The 1852 Book of Mormon is a significant edition in that its stereotype plates were used for all of the Church's subsequent impressions before 1879"--Crawley 688. Flake 601, Sabin 83044.