Individual Book Details: A0081
Record Date |
02/16/2024 |
Collection Name |
1830 Palmyra |
Ownership Type |
Special Collections |
Owner |
Utah Historical Society |
Location |
Salt Lake City, UT |
Description |
1830 Book of Mormon, Samuel Potter |
Provenance |
Inscription listing Samuel Potter, purchased from mormon preachers in 1833 Other listings for several last names of Holman |
Unique Features |
Spine: Brown Label. Darker coloration with wear on top and bottom edges and hinging. ribbing discolored to dark with all gold worn off. Spine Lettering and Label: Brown Title Ribbon with gold lettering, small font formatting. Lettering starting to fad with vertical lines throughout. Cover: Darker coloration with wear on outer corners. Lighter rub coloration in center of cover. Binding: spine/cover hinging intact. One front endpaper. Title Page: Present. Triangular cockling on upper right corner and slightly on lower left corner. Some ink bleed through points from end paper inscription on subtitle lines. Discoloration spot on year line. Text: Preface page missing, various annotations in margins and edges in ink. Trace of water staining on outer edges Inscription: front end paper recto: “Samuel Potter his book bought of the mormon preachers 1833” in brown ink with illegible/faded pencil writings. Front pastedown: L.S. Holman in various pencils. Illegible inscription in pencil and another Bilpha (SP?) Holman in ink. Notes: Page 144, line 36 proper “about”. Page number 212, “122”. Page 161 line 1, “fait”. Page 63 line 21 “himself”. Proper page number 487. Page 521 line 8/9 “mur-derers” Page 582 line 41, proper “meekness”. Three Witness page line 10 proper “seen”. |
