first edition Leather bound
1892 · Salt Lake City, UT
by Roberts, Brigham Henry
Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Publishers, 1892. First edition. Leather bound. Good. 468pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full leather with gilt stamped titles and ornamental stamping on the boards and backstrip, and beveled edges. All edges gilt. Brown floral endsheets. Eleven plates, including the double page Joseph and Hyrum. Chipping to the leather at the spine ends and corners of the covers. The front hinge is split, and the title page is partially detached. There are dark patches from former inlaid material on pp. 62-63, and the pages have sporadic tide marks in the upper margins. While most of the tide marks are quite minor, roughly a dozen of them extend across the whole margin. Biography of the third LDS President by Mormon intellectual and historian, B.H. Roberts. Flake/Draper 7331. (Inventory #: 47016)