1852 · Liverpool & London
by Spencer, Orson
Liverpool & London: S. W. Richards, 1852. Small 8vo, pp. [iii]-viii, 244; original brown blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; binding a little dull, but overall very good and sound. Spencer, a well-educated Baptist minister who converted to Mormonism in 1841, corresponded with former colleague Reverend William Crowell and those letters form the basis of the above work. Spencer went on to head the University of Nauvoo, served as president of the British Mission, and was the first chancellor of the University of Deseret. Flake 8327; Crawley 736; Sabin 89370.
(Inventory #: 54448)