That is, in the basement, ground floor, and second floor of the structure, with the upper lodge room still free.
In nineteenth-century printing terminology, “job work” was “commercial or common work, as distinct from book or news work.” Such work required job type or job font (mentioned later in these minutes), which was “distinct from larger fonts for book work.” (“Job Font,” and “Job Work,” in Rummonds, Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices, 2:1002–1003.)
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress. 2 vols. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2004.
Among the items Hyde intended to publish was a “Farewell to Rigdonism,” which had been discussed in previous council meetings. This pamphlet was issued from the church’s printing office and published as Speech of Elder Orson Hyde, Delivered before the High Priest’s Quorum in Nauvoo, April 27th, 1845, upon the Course and Conduct of Mr. Sidney Ridgon, and upon the Merits of His Claims to the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, 1845). (See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 22 and 25 Mar. 1845.)
Speech of Elder Orson Hyde, Delivered before the High Priest’s Quorum in Nauvoo, April 27th, 1845, upon the Course and Conduct of Mr. Sidney Rigdon, and upon the Merits of His Claims to the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, 1845. Copy at CHL.
The previous summer Orson Pratt had published an almanac for 1845; in the summer of 1845, he published an almanac for 1846. Both almanacs were published in New York City at the printing office of the Prophet, the church’s newspaper in that city. (Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 1:269–272, 308.)
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.
During winter 1844–1845 Lucy Mack Smith, JS’s mother, began writing a history of her family with the assistance of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray and Howard Coray. She informed her son William in January 1845, “I have by the councill of the 12 undertaken a history of the family that is my Fathers Family and my own.” She asked William to start a subscription to raise about one hundred dollars to buy paper to print her history and, in July 1845, obtained a copyright. In October 1845, at the church’s general conference, Lucy Mack Smith “gave notice that she had written her history, and wished it printed before we leave this place.” The history was not printed until 1853, by Orson Pratt in Liverpool, England, as Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations (Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853). (Lucy Mack Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to William Smith, 23 Jan. 1845, CHL; Copyright for Lucy Mack Smith, “The History of Lucy Smith,” 18 July 1845, Robert Wright Harris, Copyright Registry Records for Works concerning the Mormons to 1870, CHL; “Minutes of the First General Conference,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1845, 6:1014; Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 3:91–97.)
Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.
Harris, Roger Wright. Copyright Registry Records for Works concerning the Mormons to 1870, ca. 1974. CHL.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.
The second edition of the Doctrine and Covenants was published in Nauvoo in 1844, with copies available by September. Because the book had been stereotyped, it was possible to readily issue other printings. A second printing occurred later in 1845 and a third in 1846, both published in Nauvoo by the church’s printing office. (See Historical Introduction to Doctrine and Covenants, 1844; and Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 1:277–280, 302–303, 340.)
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.