Mormonism Unveiled; Including the Remarkable Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee; and Complete Life of Brigham Young.

Illustrated

by John D. Lee 

First edition.  St. Louis, MO:  M.E. Mason, Publisher, 1891 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Publisher's brown cloth covers with gilt and black illustration and titles. 
• Boards show some smudges, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has black text dimmed and is darkened, with crushed, chipped ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Patterned end papers/ pastedowns have a chip at corner, some owner's marks.  See photos.  
• Frontispiece is present and has intact tissue guard.  
• Ex libris book features an owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
• Illustrations are bright and clear. 
• Interior is gently age-toned.   
• Inside pages have scattered marginalia, underlining.  See photos.  
• Text block edges are marbled. 
• PS2024.1009

413 pages. 5 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches

A very good copy, in the publisher's decorated cloth covers, of this edition of John Doyle Lee's autobiography and story of Brigham Young and the earliest days of Mormonism.  Written after Lee's conviction for the 1857 attack on an Arkansas immigrant wagon train camped at Mountain Meadows, Utah.  Lee was the only member of the Church of Latter Day Saints to be sentenced for participation in the killing of more than 120 men, women, and children bound for California.

In this writing, Lee described his early Church missions among "gentiles," his work with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and the persecutions endured by Church leaders and followers that compelled them to move West.  Bitter over his conviction, Lee blamed Church leaders for the Mountain Meadows murders, calling Brigham Young "the greatest criminal of the nineteenth century."

Includes a preface by the publisher, which claims that this account is the only authentic version of Lee's story, and an introduction by John D. Lee's attorney, W. W. Bishop.  Of interest to readers of social and religious history, the book also provides an account of Lee's arrest and execution, transcripts of his trial, and the names of others involved in the Mountain Meadows massacre.

PROVENANCE:  Ex Libris Frank L. Hadley, with a bookplate inside the front cover.  Feps have a second owner signature.  

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