Roberts, Brigham Henry

New Witnesses for God, II [2]: The Book of Mormon [Part 1]

Salt Lake City: The Deseret Book Company, 1927. 501pp. Duodecimos [20 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Name in ink on the front pastedown with a handful of manuscript notes in pencil sporadically throughout. Item #10139

Major doctrinal work that grew out of a ten-part series that originally appeared in The Contributor between July 1888 and January 1889. Brigham H. Roberts (1857-1933) was one of the seven presidents of the First Council of the Seventy. A voluminous writer, he is perhaps best known for his outstanding A Comprehensive History of the Church. Born in England, he was baptized in Utah in 1867, following his emigration. He graduated from the University of Deseret in 1878, taught school, and gradually drifted into journalism. He filled missions in Tennessee (1880-82), in the southern states (1883-86), and in England (1886-88). In 1888 he was called to the First Council of the Seventy; in 1889 he spent four mouths in prison for "unlawful cohabitation." Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Roberts was denied his seat because of his polygamist beliefs. His histories and biographies and treatises remain among the important works of Mormon literature. Flake/Draper 7352.

Price: $40.00