Mormon Imprints

Published December 2000

  1. Bibliographies and Reference Works
    • Chad J. Flake, compiler, A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating ot the First Century of Mormonism (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978). A ten-year supplement appeared in 1989: Chad J. Flake and Larry W. Draper, A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930: Ten Year Supplement (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989). An Title Index to both volumes was issued by the same press in 1992.
    • L. R. Jacobs, Mormon Non-English Scriptures, Hymnals, and Periodicals, 1830-1986: A Descriptive Bibliography (Ithaca, New York: By the Compiler, 1986).
    • Ronald D. Dennis, Welsh Mormon Writings from 1844 to 1862: A Historical Bibliography Religious Studies Center Monograph Series, Volume 4 (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988).
    • Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume One, 1830-1847 (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1997).
    • David J. Whittaker, “The Web of Print: Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture,” Journal of Mormon History 23 #1 (Spring 1997):1-41. Includes an introduction to the discipline of book history, a survey of reference works, a guide to American book history, and a bibliography of published works on early Mormon book history.
    • ________. “Mormon Imprints As Sources for Research: A History and Evaluation,” in Reflections on Mormon History (volume forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press). Volume co-authored with Ronald W. Walker and James B. Allen.
  2. Studies of Mormon Book History (Selected)
    • Hugh G. Stocks, “The Book of Mormon, 1830-1879: A Publishing History,” (Master’s thesis, UCLA, 1979).
    • ________. “The Book of Mormon in English, 1870-1920: A Publishing History and Analytical Bibliography,” (Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA, 1986).
    • Paul Gutjahr, “The Golden Bible in the Bible’s Golden Age: The Book of Mormon and Antebellum Print Culture,” ATQ 12 (December 1998):275-93.
    • Royal Skousen, “Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 30 (Winter 1990):41-69.
    • Ronald E. Romig and John H. Siebert, “First Impressions: Independence, Missouri, Printing Operation, 1832-33,” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 10 (1990):51-66.
    • Warren A. Jennings, “Factors in the Destruction of the Mormon Press in Missouri, 1833,” Utah Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 1967):57-76.
    • Peter Crawley, “Parley P. Pratt: Father of Mormon Pamphleteering,” Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought 15 (Autumn 1982):13-26.
    • Helen Hanks Macare, “The Singing Saints: A Study of the Mormon Hymnal, 1835-1950,” (Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA, 1961).
    • Terence A. Tanner, “The Mormon Press in Nauvoo, 1839-1846,” Western Illinois Regional Studies 11 (Fall 1988):5-29.
    • David J. Whittaker, “Early Mormon Pamphleteering,” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977):35-49.
    • ________. “Early Mormon Pamphleteering,” (Ph.D. dissertation, BYU, 1982).
    • ________. “Almanacs in the New England Heritage of Mormonism,” BYU Studies 29 (Fall 1989):89-113.
    • ________. “‘The Bone in the Throat’: Orson Pratt and the Public Announcement of Plural Marriage,” Western Historical Quarterly 18 (July 1987):293-314. [The Seer]
    • ________. “Early Mormon Polygamy Defenses,” Journal of Mormon History 11 (1984):43-63.
    • ________. “Orson Pratt: Prolific Pamphleteer,” Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought 15 (Autumn 1982):27-44.
    • J. Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism: A Half Century of Forensic Warfare Waged by the West’s Most Militant Press (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938).
    • Monte B. McLaws, Spokesman for the Kingdom: Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830-1898 (Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1977).
    • Sherilyn Cox Bennion, “The Woman’s Exponent: Forty-Two Years of Speaking for Women,” Utah Historical Quarterly 44 (Summer 1977):222-39.
    • Lawrence R. Flake, “The Development of the Juvenile Instructor under George Q. Cannon and Its Functions in Latter-day Saint Religious Education,” (Master’s thesis, BYU, 1969).
    • David Buice, “Chattanooga’s Southern Star: Mormon Window on the South, 1898-1900,” BYU Studies 28 (Spring 1988):5-15.
    • Arnold K. Garr, “A History of the Liahona the Elders’ Journal: A Magazine for the Mormon Missions of America, 1903-1945,” (Ph.D. dissertation, BYU, 1986).
    • Patricia Ann Mann, “A History of the Relief Society Magazine, 1914-1970,” (Master’s thesis, BYU, 1971).
    • Lorin F. Wheelwright, “‘The Instructor’: A Voice of Truth for 105 Years, 1866-1970,” The Improvement Era 73 (October 1970):16-19.
    • Jay Todd, “A Status Report on Church Magazines: A Look at How They Came to Be,” The Ensign 6 (February 1976):70-75.
    • Bryam Waterman, “A Guide to the Mormon Universe: Mormon Organizations and Periodicals,” Sunstone 17 (December 1994):44-64.
    • Lauramaery Gold, Mormons on the Internet (Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1997).
    • Eleanor Knowles, Deseret Book Company, 125 Years of Inspiration, Information, and Ideas (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1991).