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[Taewan Geum]

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1847

BIGLER: Tues. 23rd. Fine lot of horses were brought in for the dragoons who are also quartered here.

BLISS: Tues. 23 today I drew 1 oz. more Flour per man; hope it will not be long before we draw full rasions; my health is improving as holsome food is increased; the weather is most beautiful: I saw oats the other day almost headed out.

BORROWMAN: Tuesday, 23rd I have spent most of this day in reading the Book of Mormon, which gives me a great deal of comfort. [possibly had an 1846 copy which was not a new printing but rather the continued use of the 1837 edition.]

HANCOCK: 23 day drilling as before

PACE, JAMES: Tuesday 23the fine weather drilled as usual

SMITH, AZARIAH: Tuesday Feb 23d Yesterday and today we drilled as before, an hour in the forenoon and also an hour in the afternoon.

STANDAGE: 23. Drill. 13 of flour given to each man in addition to the 10 oz. also more beef.

Author: Skousen, Royal

Four editions [of the Book of Mormon] were published during Joseph Smith's lifetime: 1. 1830: 5,000 copies; published by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York. In general, the first edition is a faithful copy of the printer's manuscript (although on one occasion the original manuscript rather than the printer's was used for typesetting). For the most part, this edition reproduces what the compositor, John H. Gilbert, considered grammatical "errors." Gilbert added punctuation and determined the paragraphing for the first edition. In the Preface, Joseph Smith explains the loss of the Book of Lehi-116 pages of manuscript (see Manuscript, Lost 116 Pages). The testimonies of the Three and the Eight Witnesses were placed at the end of the book. In this and all other early editions, there is no versification.

2. 1837: Either 3,000 or 5,000 copies; published by Parley P. Pratt and John Goodson, Kirtland, Ohio. For this edition, hundreds of grammatical changes and a few emendations were made in the text. The 1830 edition and the printer's manuscript were used as the basis for this edition.

3. 1840: 2,000 copies; published for Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith (by Shepard and Stearns, Cincinnati, Ohio), Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith compared the printed text with the original manuscript and discovered a number of errors made in copying the printer's manuscript from the original. Thus the 1840 edition restores some of the readings of the original manuscript.

4. 1841: 4,050 copies (5,000 contracted); published for Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt (by J. Tompkins, Liverpool, England). This first European edition was printed with the permission of Joseph Smith; it is essentially a reprinting of the 1837 edition with British spellings.