First Nephi-Omni (The first third of the Book of Mormon, "designed for a Third Reader")
Language: English
Published by Published for The Deseret University by Russell Bros., New York, 1869
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.Cat's Curiosities
AbeBooks seller since June 20, 2007
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 500.46
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2-X-3-inch patch to bottom of front pastedown at the gutter appears to have been damp; leather rubbed at top of spine and modest erosion to powder-blue paper at top left of front board, exposing the black leather beneath. The Deseret Alphabet is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the Board of Regents of the University of Deseret in Utah under the leadership of Brigham Young. George D. Watt is reported to have been the most actively involved in the development of the script's novel characters. In 1868–9, after much difficulty creating suitable metal type fonts, Brigham Young commissioned Russell's American Steam Printing House, a New York City based font foundry, to design the Bodoni-esque font. At least four books were published in the new alphabet, all transcribed by Orson Pratt and all using the Russell's House font: The First Deseret Alphabet Reader (1868), The Second Deseret Alphabet Reader (1868), The Book of Mormon (1869), and (as here) a Book of Mormon excerpt called First Nephi–Omni (1869), intended as the first of three to be used as a third school reader, which would be "for use in the schools of the Territory, the whole forming too cumbrous a volume for class use." The new alphabet was a failure -- Mormons who could already read English didn't need it, and several sources identify the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, which increased Salt Lake's population of non-Mormons with no religious adherence to Young or the church, as its kiss of death. The text block here is shockingly pristine for a 150-year-old schoolbook; A source in Salt Lake reports 10,000 copies were printed for the University of Deseret, now known as the University of Utah. "During a building renovation at the University in the 1980s, boxes were found and distributed" to VIP visitors. (Ivins, pg. 234, Flake 608.) 116 pp. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- First Nephi-Omni (The first third of the Book of Mormon, "designed for a Third Reader")
- Author
- Smith, Joseph (Brigham Young)
- Publisher
- Published for The Deseret University by Russell Bros., New York
- Publication year
- 1869
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Cat's Curiosities
Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 20, 2007
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