Individual Book Details: A0066
Record Date |
09/01/2023 |
Collection Name |
1830 Palmyra |
Ownership Type |
Special Collections |
Owner |
University of Utah |
Location |
Salt Lake City, UT |
Description |
1830 Book of Mormon, Tanner |
Provenance |
Written details included with the book listing owned by John Tanner, 1832, moving to various locations where he died in 1850 in Utah. Family moved with the book to California afterwards. Notes list various owners and donation to the University of Utah by George Tanner in 1983. |
Unique Features |
Spine: Showing wear and vertical cracking. Worn mark on upper section with missing piece at upper right corner. Larger missing piece on bottom section with diagonal wear. Spine Lettering and Label: Cover: Vertical cut/tear mark on starting bottom edge Binding: cover/spine hinging still attached. Front endpapers missing. Title Page: Missing Text: Pages indicative of fire damage. Preface page showing scorch marks and lower right corner burned away/missing. 1 Nephi page and few pages at the beginning showing scorch marks and lower right corners decreasingly burned away. Water damage reflective through pages, significantly at the back end of text block. Inscription: Front inside cover upper half: “Mary L Tanner Crismon” in cursive pencil. Library call numbers in lower left corner. Back inside cover contains pencil scribbles but illegible. Notes: Oval University Library ink stamp on Inside cover lower right section and 2nd Preface page (verso). Page 144, line 36 “about”. Page 212 “122”. Proper page number 487. Page 521 line 8/9 “rum-derers”. Three witnesses page line 10 proper “seen”. |
