Deseret Reading Material

 
 

In the mid- to late-1800's there were only four books printed in the Deseret Alphabet. There were three children's readers (The first two readers were based on Willson's Readers, and the third was a partial Book of Mormon containing 1Nephi through Words of Mormon.), and the complete Book of Mormon. There were also scores of newspaper articles printed in the Deseret News. Besides the books and newspaper articles, there were other items printed in the Deseret Alphabet such as journals, shop signs, cards showing the Alphabet, coins, and at least one gravestone.

There are a few things that have been written in modern times also, and I hope to see and produce more of this type of work in the future. I have many of the items both old and new in the links above, but I am still missing some things. Most notably I do not have a good copy of either of the original Deseret Alphabet versions of the Book of Mormon (I do have a copy of the full Book of Mormon as you can see above; however, the copy is an incredibly poor one). If you know where I can get some good electronic scans of either of these books, or if you have scans (or originals) of these books that you would like to donate to this site please let me know.

A big thanks goes to M. Scott Reynolds for his work in scanning the Deseret First and Second Book. He is currently working on scanning the The Book of Mormon Part One!

Deseret Second Book, 1868