1. Joseph Smith Jr., History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ed. B. H. Roberts, 2d ed., rev., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1971), 4:111, 115 (hereafter cited as History of the Church).

2. History of the Church, 4:46.

3. History of the Church, 4:123.

4. History of the Church, 4:114, 115.

5. History of the Church, 4:126.

6. History of the Church, 4:126.

7. History of the Church, 4:126.

8. Nathaniel Hinckley Wadsworth, “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 45, no. 3 (2006): 77.

9. Wadsworth, “Copyright Laws,” 78.

10. Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. 591, 661 (1834). Although Wheaton v. Peters was decided after Joseph Smith’s 1830 arbitration with Cole, it is possible that the parties in the arbitration already considered that a common-law right of first publication or ownership existed. No less an authority than James Madison, in 1788 in The Federalist, no. 43, had argued for the existence of a common-law copyright. See Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ed. Clinton Rossiter (New York: New American Library, 1961), 268.

11. Donaldson v. Beckett, 2 Brown’s Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257 (House of Lords 1774); full text at http://www.copyrighthistory.com/donaldson.html.

12. History of the Church, 4:119.

13. History of the Church, 4:119.

14. History of the Church, 4:119.

15. Augustine Birrell, Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books (London: Cassell and Co., 1899), 49.

16. Ronan Deazley, “Commentary on Henrician Proclamation 1538,” in Primary Sources on Copyright (1450–1900), ed. L. Bently and M. Kretschmer, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi-bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabeCom/%22uk_1538%22.

17. Deazley, “Commentary on Henrician Proclamation,” section 5.

18. Lyman R. Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), 21.

19. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 55. See also Marjorie Plant, The English Book Trade: An Economic History of the Making and Sale of Books (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939), 100–101.

20. Ronan Deazley (2008), “Commentary on the Stationers’ Royal Charter 1557,” in Primary Sources on Copyright (1450–1900), ed. L. Bently and M. Kretschmer, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi-bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabeCom/%22uk_1557%22.

21. Deazley, “Commentary on the Stationers’ Royal Charter.”

22. Deazley, “Commentary on the Stationers’ Royal Charter.”

23. Plant, English Book Trade, 110.

24. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 58.

25. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 160.

26. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 61.

27. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 63.

28. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 77.

29. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 93.

30. Birrell, Seven Lectures, 19.

31. Statute of Anne (1710), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450–1900), ed. L. Bently and M. Kretschmer, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi-bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabe/%22uk_1710%22.

32. Ronan Deazley, “Commentary on Copyright Act 1814,” in Primary Sources on Copyright (1450–1900), ed. L. Bently and M. Kretschmer, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi-bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabeCom/%22uk_1814%22.

33. Copyright Act (1814), in Primary Sources on Copyright (1450–1900), ed. L. Bently and M. Kretschmer, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi-bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabe/%22uk_1814%22. In addition to the nine libraries mentioned in the original Statute of Anne, legislation in 1801 had added two libraries in Dublin.

34. See John J. Lowndes, An Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (London: Saunders and Benning, 1842) 77–78.

35. Copyright Act (1814), Primary Souces on Copyright (1450–1900), s. 9. See also Birrell, Seven Lectures, 144.

36. Ronan Deazley, “Commentary on International Copyright Act 1838,” in Primary Sources on Copyright (1450–1900), ed. L. Bently and M. Kretschmer, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi-bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabeCom/%22uk_1838%22.

37. International Copyright Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vict. c.59, §§ 1, 5, 9; see also David Whitaker, “The Registering Office and the Administration of Legal Deposit,” in The Stationers’ Company: A History of the Later Years, 1800–2000, ed. Robin Myers (London: The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, 2001), 63–64.

38. History of the Church, 4:123–24, 129.

39. The Newcastle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) Courant etc, January 1, 1841, issue 8667, reprinting an article from the Scotsman in Edinburgh, Scotland.

40. History of the Church, 4:131.

41. History of the Church, 4:131–32, 134.

42. History of the Church, 4:148.

43. History of the Church, 4:161–62.

44. Parley P. Pratt, A Reply to Mr. Thomas Taylor’s “Complete Failure” &c., and Mr. Richard Livesey’s “Mormonism Exposed” (Manchester: W. R. Thomas, 1840), 5.

45. Pratt, Reply, 8.

46. History of the Church, 4:252.

47. Henry Curwen, A History of Booksellers: The Old and the New (London: Chatto and Windus, 1873), 454–55.

48. Curwen, History of Booksellers, 455.

49. Curwen, History of Booksellers, 457.

50. James B. Allen, Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker, Men with a Mission: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992), 250–51.

51. Allen, Esplin, and Whittaker, Men with a Mission, 251.

52. Hugh G. Stocks, “The Book of Mormon 1830–1879: A Publishing History” (master’s thesis, UCLA, 1979), 73–74, available at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

53. Allen, Esplin, and Whittaker, Men with a Mission, 251.

54. Stocks, “Book of Mormon,” 75. See also Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, 2 vols. (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Youong University, 1997), 1:148–51.

55. History of the Church, 4:274, 286.

56. Stanley B. Kimball, ed., On the Potter’s Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, 1987), diary 2, part 1, pp. 41–42.

57. Mechanics’ Magazine: Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette 36, no. 969 (March 5, 1842), edited, printed, and published by J. C. Robertson.

58. Wilford Woodruff, Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 1833–1898, Typescript, ed. Scott G. Kenney, 9 vols. (Midvale, Utah: Signature Books, 1983–84), 2:35 (February 2, 1841).

59. Cyprian Blagden, The Stationers’ Company: A History, 1403–1959 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960), 276.

60. Reginald T. Rivington, The Worshipful Company of Stationers: A Short Account of Its Charter, Hall, Plate, Registers, and Other Matters Connected with Its History (London: Geo. W. Jones, 1928), 9.

61. Rivington, Worshipful Company of Stationers, 9.

62. Ann Saunders, “The Stationers’ Hall,” in Stationers’ Company: A History of the Later Years, 1800–2000, ed. Robin Myers (Chichester, Engl.: Published for the Worshipful Co. of Stationers & Newspaper Makers by Phillimore, 2001), 156–57.

63. Ann Saunders, “The Stationers’ Hall,” in The Stationers’ Company and the Book Trade, 1550–1990, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris (Winchester: St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1997), 2.

64. Rivington, Worshipful Company of Stationers, 13.

65. Robin Myers, The Stationers’ Company Archive: An Account of the Records 1554–1984 (Winchester: St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1990), xvii.

66. Whitaker, “Registering Office,” 72–73.

67. Whitaker, “Registering Office,” 73.

68. Whitaker, “Registering Office,” 73.

69. Whitaker, “Registering Office,” 72–73.

70. Blagden, Stationers’ Company, 253, 265.

71. George Greenhill, Stationers’ Hall: Entries of Copies 1839–1841 and Entries of Copies 1841–1842, 542. (The records were accessed in the British Library Manuscripts Reading Room at St. Pancras, London, microfilm no. 8520 [reel 18], shelfmark M985/18).

72. Wadsworth, “Copyright Laws,” 97–99

73. Woodruff, Journal, 2:40.

74. Kimball, On the Potter’s Wheel, 45.

75. History of the Church, 4:325.

76. History of the Church, 4:381.

77. History of the Church, 7:373.

78. Woodruff, Journal, 2:19. This note is at the beginning of Woodruff’s journal for 1841. The entry for October 15, 1845, does not mention Woodruff himself being in London, and, in fact, it seems to indicate he was in Liverpool that day. Woodruff, Journal, 2:606.

79. Woodruff, Journal, 2:19.

80. Myers, Stationers’ Company Archive, xx.

81. Myers, Stationers’ Company Archive, xxi.

82. Myers, Stationers’ Company Archive, xxi.

83. Myers, Stationers’ Company Archive, xxi.

84. Brigham Young, Journal, July 1837–March 1845, 51, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City.

85. Manuscript History of the British Mission, February 1845, 4, Church History Library.

86. Preston (England) Chronicle, April 17, 1841, issue 1494.

87. Preston Chronicle, November 24, 1838, issue 1369; italics in original.

88. Woodruff, Journal, 2:519.

89. Woodruff, Journal, 2:519.

90. Woodruff, Journal, 2:519–20.

91. Woodruff, Journal, 2:522.

92. Wilford Woodruff to Heber C. Kimball, May 12, 1845, Church History Library.

93. Manuscript History of the British Mission, May 18, 1845, 1. See also Woodruff, Journal, 2:549.

94. Woodruff, Journal, 2:554.

95. Woodruff, Journal, 2:554.

96. Woodruff, Journal, 2:519.

97. History of the Church, 4:325.

98. History of the Church, 4:325.

99. Thomas F. Cotter, “Gutenberg’s Legacy: Copyright, Censorship and Religious Pluralism,” California Law Review 91 (2003): 324.

100. Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook, ed. Albert B. Paine (1935), 381, cited in Roger Syn, “Copyright God: Enforcement of Copyright in the Bible and Religious Works,” Regent University Law Review 14 (2001–2): 1.

101. Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, eds., Manuscript Revelation Books, facsimile edition, first volume of the Revelations and Translation series of The Joseph Smith Papers, ed. Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2009), 31.

102. Jensen, Woodford, and Harper, Manuscript Revelation Books, 31.

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