The Book of Mormon

The 1830 has been facsimiled repeatedly, and photographic reprints reproduce the "author and proprietor" title page exactly — so the title-page wording alone proves nothing. Judge the paper, the hand-press impression, the thirty-seven-gathering structure and the period calf binding; modern facsimiles are machine-printed on modern stock and are normally identified on the copyright page or at the rear. Single leaves broken out of genuine 1830 copies are also widely sold and should not be confused with a complete book.