Printing in Deseret : Mormons, Economy, Politics and Utah's Incunabula, 1849-1851,9780874806632

Printing in Deseret : Mormons, Economy, Politics and Utah's Incunabula, 1849-1851

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ISBN13: 9780874806632
ISBN10: 0874806631
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Utah Pr
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Author Biography

Richard L. Saunders is the curator of Special Collections and Archives at the Paul Meek Library, University of Tennessee at Martin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Part I A History of Printing and Deseret
A Press for Deseret
3(31)
Beginnings
5(7)
The Press Mission
12(12)
Establishing Deseret
24(10)
The Press in Deseret
34(50)
Printing before the Press
41(3)
Reestablishing Deseret
44(6)
Printing in 1849
50(6)
From Deseret to Utah
56(5)
Printing in 1850
61(9)
Printing in 1851
70(5)
The Political Crisis and a New Press
75(9)
Afterword
84(17)
Printing in a Nineteenth-Century Context
84(4)
Utah Printing after 1851
88(8)
Deseret's Press as an Artifact
96(5)
Part II A Descriptive Catalogue of Utah's Earliest Imprints
Concerning Bibliographic Descriptions
101(6)
A Note on Notes
102(2)
Bibliographic References
104(2)
National Union Catalogue Library Abbreviations
106(1)
Deseret Imprints of 1849
107(9)
Deseret Imprints of 1850
116(37)
Utah Imprints of 1851
153(34)
Ephemeral Ephemera
187(4)
Appendix. Printing on a Handpress 191(9)
The Letterpress Process
191(2)
Hand-Setting Type
193(2)
Makeup
195(1)
Printing
196(2)
W.W. Phelps's Printing Plant
198(2)
Works Cited 200(6)
Index 206

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