first edition Leather bound
1855 · Great Salt Lake City
Great Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, Public Printer, 1855. First edition. Leather bound. 460pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 brown leather with limp card boards. Fair only. The majority of the paper covering the boards is gone, exposing the original underlying boards. The front cover has a dark stain. There is a 2 inch crack at the head of the spine along the front joint. The front board is slightly creased. There are small losses from the corners of the covers. There is a large loss from the paper of the front pastedown. The pages are very subtly moisture stained. Published by virtue of an act approved Jan. 19, 1855. Contents include an act concerning ferries and bridges on Weber and Bear rivers, east of the main range of the Wasatch mountains, an act to incorporate the Deseret Iron Company. (Inventory #: 49163)