Polygamy : or, the mysteries and crimes of Mormonism. being a full and authentic history of polygamy and the Mormon sect from its origin to the present time / by J.H. Beadle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897.

Contributor:

P. W. Ziegler & Co., publisher.

Canvassing and Sample Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Subscription Publishing Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saints--Polygamy.

Latter Day Saints.

Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.

Dummies (Bookselling).

Booksellers and bookselling.

Polygamy.

Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription etc.

Bookbinding--Specimens.

Bookbinding.

Genre:

Specimens.

Prospectuses.

Subscription lists (Publishing)

Subscribers' addresses (Publishing)

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Canvassing book].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler Co., [1904]

Notes:

Canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations; 1-leaf prospectus; preprinted subscription order leaves.

Binding: cloth binding, with spine design stamped onto back cover. Sample of "Texoderm Binding" mounted to rear pastedown, with printed explanation mounted adjacent on pastedown.

Copyright 1904 by D.Z. Howell.

Local Notes:

Zinman 90 has first free endpaper excised. Subscription order leaves contain the names and addresses of 36 subscribers, possibly from Philadelphia and surrounding region. 10 additional names and addresses, possibly of subscribers, written in pencil on verso of title page.

Subscription order leaves contain orders for other titles, possibly periodicals: (1) "Hearth and Home," (2) "Ladies World."

Cited in:

Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 90

OCLC:

912025838