Friday, June 7, 2013

The Book of Mormon Original Manuscript’s Dual Purpose


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True or False; was any of the original Book of Mormon manuscript used by the printers? 

Yesterday’s answer:

(D)   produced a picture book

In 1853 British Mission president Samuel W. Richards and twenty-three-year-old convert Frederick Hawkins Piercy, an accomplished artist and engraver, decided to publish an illustrated travel book to encourage European Latter-day Saints to gather to Zion. Piercy left England for the United States, making sketches of important scenes to James Linford, an assistant editor for the Church’s Millennial Star, to prepare for release. With its thirty steel engravings, and bound in red gilt-stamped morocco, Route from Liverpool to the Great Salt Lake Valley is considered one of the most beautiful publications in the Church.


Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 122.

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