The first edition of the scripture of the LDS church was released just days before the church's official establishment in early April 1830. It was published in Palmyra in western New York

1st edition Book of Mormon sells for $52,500 at NYC auction

1830: The Book of Mormon is first published by Joseph Smith in Palmyra, New York, as "The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi." According to Smith's account, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as "reformed Egyptian" engraved on golden plates.

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