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Scribner's Monthly - August 1880. Mormon Origin & Bible Controversy. Charles Dickens Horology Fra Savonarola French Republic Canada Whippoorwills the Grandissimes Peter the Great Curiosities of Advertising American Diplomacy Seymour Haden
1880ref. 000376New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1880. First Edition . Original Wraps. Very Good. 9.75" x 6.5. Engravings. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons August 1880. First Edition. Numerous illustrations from engravings. 9.75" x 6.5" original pale lavender wraps perfect-bound wraps 8 pp. 161 pp. 16 pp. supplemental articles ads. Some chipping along bottom edge some soiling. No that's not a crease at lower right - that's a bit of flippancy in Scribner's Holiday Issue cover design. A Strong Very Good or a bit more with even a virtually complete spine albeit end-tweaked -see scan. something of a rarity in that regard. See scans. Contents extraordinarily clean and bright. The original issue in wraps - not from the hardbound aggregations - of the August1880 issue which contains Ellen E. Dickinson's article "The Book of Mormon" "manuscript found" dealing with the claim of the daughter of Reverend Solomon Spaulding that her father had in fact written a work based on his actual experiences it is claimed at mounds he excavated near Conneaut Ohio in 1812 which was subsequently usurped by Joseph Smith for the creation of the Book of Mormon. Fascinating reading and the writing has a ring of authenticity to it un-hyped and oddly down-to-earth direct and sincere and simple for the language of the day - though I am certainly no expert on the subject. Other topics in this issue of the always thoroughly illustrated Scribner's Monthly - almost all thoroughly illustrated with engravings - are: About England with Charles Dickens Fra Girolamo Savonarola The French Republic Canada Whippoorwills the Grandissimes Peter the Great Curiosities of Advertising American Diplomacy Rivers superb engravings and the etchings of Seymour Haden. Supplemental section has an interesting piece with charts on horology: 'Extract from the Judges in Horology' from the 1879-1880 Sydney International Exhibition' with three charts which compare the performance of top watchmakers of the time. Very scarce as the in-wraps original. See scans. LG13 Charles Scribner's Sons paperback
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