Small 4to. With an original leaf from Joseph Smith's 1830 Book of Mormon (pp. 411-412, "Book of Helaman") laid in. Original black calf-backed cloth, uncut; publisher's slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 44 copies of the "deluxe edition," this being the binder's proof, from a total edition of 290.

"When the Grolier Club included the 1830 Book of Mormon in its famous 1946 exhibition of one hundred influential American books, the Book of Mormon had been published in nineteen languages, and the followers of Joseph Smith numbered about one million. Fifty-four years later, at the end of the twentieth century, the complete book is in print in forty-five languages, abridged editions are available in forty-six others, and those who venerate it as scripture exceed ten million" (from the Essay by Peter Crawley). Joel Silver, "Catalog of the Exhibition," in: Disbound and Dispersed, item 45; Chalmers Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 220.