The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi by Smith, Joseph - 1849

Liverpool: Published by Orson Pratt, 1849. Second European Edition. 563pp. Sextodecimo [14 cm] Original black blind stamped sheep with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Previous owner's names in ink on front pastedown and endsheets, with family births recorded in ink beginning on page 563. Subtle professional restoration to the hinges and backstrip. Title page is tipped in. It has been noted that the the first European printing of the Book of Mormon in 1841, helped to build the LDS Church, through the conversion of thousands and thousands of English speaking Europeans (primarily British), and the proof for this is the second British edition which was printed 7 years after the initial 5,000 copy print run (coincidentally this span matches the time between the American first and second).

According to Crawley: "The first European edition of the Book of Mormon had been in print almost eight years when the Millennial Star of December 15, 1848, noted that all copies had been sold and a new edition would appear in May, 'perhaps sooner.' Two months later the Star announced that Orson Pratt was then in the process of having 5,000 copies each of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants printed and bound, and May 15, 1849, it advertised the new edition of the Book of Mormon." Flake/Draper 600. Auerbach 1175. Sabin 83043. Crawley 415.