Gilbert set the type for about 85 percent of the book. Near the end of August 1829 the shop began on the Book of Mormon. Luther Howard’s bindery, operated in partnership with Grandin, was on the second floor Grandin’s Palmyra Bookstore was on the first. Grandin’s print shop was on the third floor of what is now known as the Grandin Building and used by the LDS Church as a museum.
The entire Printer’s Manuscript is in the possession of the RLDS Church. Seventy-four leaves of the Original Manuscript, about a quarter, are held by the LDS Church.
But at one point, it would seem, he got behind, and the typesetter used instead part of the Original Manuscript (Helaman 13–Mormon). Apparently he attempted to copy the manuscript just fast enough to stay ahead of the typesetter. The printing of the Book of Mormon actually began several months before the entire Printer’s Manuscript was finished: in a postscript to a letter to Joseph Smith of November 6, 1829, Cowdery remarked that, at that point, he had transcribed a little more than half. Cowdery did most of the copying, but Emma Smith, Christian Whitmer, and others also worked on this transcription. This transcription-now referred to as the Printer’s Manuscript-would be given to the typesetter, while the Original Manuscript was locked away, thus preserving the text should any part of the Printer’s Manuscript be lost. While Smith and Harris made arrangements with the printer, Oliver Cowdery began making a second copy of the manuscript. As security, Harris gave Grandin a mortgage on his farm, dated August 25, 1829, which bound Harris to pay the $3,000 within eighteen months. Gilbert, Grandin agreed to print and bind in leather 5,000 copies for $3,000. After talking with friends, who assured him printing the book would be viewed only as business, and consulting with his typesetter, John H. Grandin and urged him to take on the job. With a printer in hand, Harris went back to E. Marshall, a Rochester book publisher, who agreed to do the printing if payment was suitably guaranteed. Next they contacted Thurlow Weed, publisher of the Rochester Anti-Masonic Enquirer, who declined on the grounds that he was only a newspaper man. Grandin was troubled by the adverse publicity and refused.
Grandin, publisher of the Palmyra Wayne Sentinel, about printing the book. About the same time, he and Harris approached Egbert B. On June 11, 1829, he deposited the title page of the Book of Mormon with the clerk of the Northern District of New York and obtained a copyright. With the manuscript near completion, Joseph Smith turned his attention to its publication. By the first of July the manuscript was finished. Occasionally two of David’s brothers, Christian and John, relieved Cowdery as Joseph Smith’s scribe. About the first of June they reached Fayette, and the day after they arrived they resumed their work on the manuscript. Ĭowdery had met David Whitmer earlier in Palmyra, and in May he wrote to Whitmer and asked if he and Smith might stay at Whitmer’s father’s farm in Fayette, New York. But when Cowdery started writing for Joseph Smith on April 7, the work on the manuscript began in earnest. At the end of September Joseph Smith had begun dictating his translation again, and from time to time his wife Emma and her brother Reuben Hale acted as scribes. A year earlier, at Harmony, Martin Harris had transcribed Joseph Smith’s dictation from the plates, and in about two months they had produced 116 pages, which were lost when Harris took them to Palmyra to show his incredulous wife. Only a few pages of what is now known as the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon existed when Oliver Cowdery introduced himself to Joseph Smith in Harmony, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1829. By Joseph Smith, Junior, author and proprietor. 1 The book of Mormon: an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi.
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