Also available: The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Vol. 1: 1832-1839 Limited Leather Edition.

This will make a wonderful addition to your library. Order now to ensure a first edition copy!

The Joseph Smith Papers publishing project puts into one comprehensive collection the writings attributed to this religious leader, offering information and insight about Joseph Smith, early Mormonism, and nineteenth-century American religion.

This facsimile edition of Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books opens a new series. The volume provides new access to priceless documents dating from 1828 to 1834. For the first time, readers can view photocopies of original writings in the actual hand of ealry Church leaders such as Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon. It will present a transcription and photographic reproduction of each page of the two manuscript revelation books used by early scribes of Joseph Smith. This unprecedented access to the first publication of one of the revelation books allows readers to own some of the earliest copies of the revelation manuscripts, including those used to print the Book of Commandments and 1835 Doctrine & Covenants.

The book will include an introductory essay with the balance of the book showing reproductions of the manuscripts. Owning a copy will be like having access to hand-written documents of historical significance in your own home or office.

Section 76, known to the early saints as "the Vision" actually is recorded in two places in the manuscript with one passage showing an entire paragraph in Joseph's own handwriting. Also there are signtures of witnesses who testify to the truthfulness of the revelations, including one signature with the note adjacent "never to be erased" that can be seen on the facsimile pages.

In order to effectively represent the full color photographic reproductions of the actual handwritten revelations, this volume is printed at the larger size of 9" x 12" and contains almost 800 pages. With large size and specifically selected papers with coated color finishing, each book is estimated to weigh approximately eight pounds.

It is a sizable work and a shipping surcharge will be in place due to weight, but you will be thrilled when you receive it and can hold history in your hands.

This is the second book to be released in the comprehensive Joseph Smith Papers project. However, it is NOT Volume 2 in the Journals series, rather it is the first volume in the Revelations & Translations series within the larger overall Papers collection.

It is entitled:

Revelations and Translations

Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books

A sample of the content can be viewed by enlarging the image below the book cover shown above (Click on the small graphic).