Ten Little-Known Facts About the Pearl of Great Price‏

This article was originally written by Reid N. Moon for Meridian Magazine. 

I enjoy tracking down early Mormon books.  I have traveled over a million miles looking for these treasures.  Over the past two decades I have tracked down several first edition copies of the Pearl of Great Price.  In the accompanying photo, my daughter Emma is holding one of these copies. She often accompanies me on my travels.

Here are  ten little-known facts that I have learned about the Pearl of Great Price:

1)  Although most of the items selected for publication in the Pearl of Great Price had previously appeared in Church periodicals such as The Evening and Morning Star and Times and Seasons,  the first collection of these materials to carry the title Pearl of Great Price was made in 1851 by Elder Franklin D. Richards, then a member of the Council of the Twelve and president of the British Mission.

Read Moon’s full article at LDSmag.com.