Can any of your correspondents oblige me by supplying particulars of other editions of the following Mormon works? The particulars required are the size, place, date, and number of pages. The editions enumerated below are the only ones to which I have had access.
1. The Book of Mormon:
First American edition, 12mo.: Palmyra, 1830, pp. 588., printed by E. B. Grandin for the author.
First European edition, small 8vo.: Liverpool, 1841, title, one leaf, pp. 643., including index at the end.
Second European edition, 12mo.: Liverpool, 1849. Query number of pages?
Third European edition, 12mo.: Liverpool, 1852, pp. xii. 563.
2. Book of Doctrine and Covenants:
First (?) American edition, 18mo.: Kirkland, 1835, pp. 250.
Third European edition, 12mo.: Liverpool, 1852, pp. xxiii, 336.
3. Hymn Book for the "Saints" in Europe:
Ninth edition, 16mo.: Liverpool, 1851, pp. vii. 379., containing 296 hymns.
As I am passing through the press two Lectures on the subject of Mormonism, and am anxious that the literary history and bibliography of this curious sect should be as complete as possible, I will venture to ask the favour of an immediate reply to this Query: and since the subject is hardly of general interest, as well as because the necessary delay of printing any communication may hereby be avoided, may I request that any reply be sent to me at the address given below. I shall also be glad to learn where, and at what price, a copy of the first American edition of the Book of Mormon can be procured.
W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A.
14. Grove Road,
North Brixton, Surrey.