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Leather Bound. Condition: Good. and Portraits and Memoirs of Joseph and Hyrum Smith; their Mother, Lucy Smith; Joseph and David Smith, Sons of the Prophet Joseph; President Brigham Young; Heber C. Kimball; Willard Richards; Jedediah M. Grant; John Taylor; the late Chief Patriarch, Father John Smith; and present Chief Patriarch together with a Geographic and Historical Description of Utah, and a map of the Overland Routes to that Territory from the Missouri River also an Authentic History of the Latter-Day Saints' Emigration from Europe from the Commencement up tot he close of 1855, with important statistics. An Exact Facsimile Republication of the 1855 Liverpool Edition. Good leather bound copy with dustjacket and mylar overlay, 126 no. pp. No date or year.

Limited Edition. 120pp. Quarto [31.5 cm] 3/4 burgundy leather over red boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. A.E.G. Matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. This edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies, this is copy 591. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley contains Piercy's detailed narrative of the journey as well as illustrations of an unusually high quality made from his own drawings sketched on the trail. In addition to these illustrations of prominent landmarks between Council Bluff and Salt Lake City, Piercy also made sketches of sites along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Nauvoo including the Nauvoo Temple in ruin and Carthage jail. He also did five portrait sketches. This is a landmark work in American travel narratives and Mormon history. "Route from Liverpool ranks as the most beautiful book published by Latter-day Saints." - Peter Crawley.