The Mormon Delusion: Its History, Doctrines, and the Outlook in Utah
Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society in collaboration with Samuel Usher, [1890]. First edition. Hardcover. 354pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Brown floral endpapers. Covers cocked. Small dark stain to fore-edge of text block. Endpapers cracked along the hinges. Previous owner's private library bookplate on the front pastedown. "Jan 1890" in pen, with a tiny crossed out notation, at head of front free endpaper. Good. Item #71272
Flake 5454. From the Preface- "Hitherto there has not been any one book published that gives all the essential facts about Mormonism and the situation in Utah."
Marcus Whitman Montgomery (1839-1894) was a congregational clergyman and an instructor at the Chicago Theological Seminary. "The Mormon Delusion" was written in order to "expose" Mormonism.
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