Pratt, Parley Parker

Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star. Volume I [1]

Manchester: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain, June, 1840 - April, 1841. Volume 1. 11 issues (lacks no. 1), Octavo [21.5 cm] Disbound with stab holes. About very good. General overall wear and staining. Item #10787

The Millennial Star was the longest running LDS periodical, published continuously for 130 years until it was discontinued in 1970 with the overhaul of all the LDS magazines. Inaugurated by the Twelve at the beginning of their great mission to England, its first editor was Parley Pratt who labored alone on the magazine until June 1842 when he was joined by a British convert Thomas Ward. Ward became editor and publisher in November 1842, serving until October 1846 when he was replaced by Orson Hyde, president of the British Mission. Thereafter, the British Mission president assumed the editorship.

"It would be impossible to fully write the history of either the LDS British Mission, the LDS foreign missions in the nineteenth century, or of the Church itself without mention of this important periodical. Published in pamphlet for, it regularly provided the informational and inspirational glue which held the Church in Europe and Asia together during the past century." - Mormon Imprints p.11

Even though the Star was published primarily for the members of the Church in England, it is an important record of the progress of the whole of Mormonism, especially of the nineteenth century Utah church. "But for this publication," notes H.H. Bancroft, "it would be impossible to fill the gaps which occur in the record of the Mormon people." - Mormon 50:14. Crawley 71. Flake/Draper 4779. Woodward 123. Auerbach 691. Scallawagiana 19.

Price: $450.00