---
title: Mormonism Unvailed
description: 1834 book by E. D. Howe about the origins of Mormonism, included as a historical source.
authors:
  - Howe, Eber Dudley
collections:
  - history
tags:
  - history
  - 19th-century
published: "1834"
publisher: Printed and published by the author
edition: First edition (Painesville, Ohio, 1834)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'E. D. Howe, *Mormonism Unvailed* (Painesville, OH: Printed and published by the author, 1834), "Frontispiece and Title Page," 1-2.'
source:
  url: https://ia801708.us.archive.org/33/items/mormonismunvaile00howe/mormonismunvaile00howe.pdf
  identifier: mormonismunvaile00howe
  transcription: Text from the Spalding Studies Library online transcription, with printed pagination checked against the Internet Archive scan; website navigation text removed; bracketed markers such as [sic] come from that transcription.
start_page: 1
end_page: 2
curator_note: First published 1834. Online text from the Spalding Studies Library was used for transcription; the Internet Archive scan was used for printed pagination and section ranges.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1834 US publication (Painesville, Ohio); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/mormonismunvaile00howe
  publication_year: 1834
---

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# Frontispiece and Title Page

**MORMONISM UNVAILED**:

OR,

A FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THAT SINGULAR IMPOSITION AND

D E L U S I O N,

FROM ITS RISE TO THE PRESENT TIME.

WITH SKETCHES OF THE CHARACTERS OF ITS

PROPAGATORS,

AND A FULL DETAIL OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE FAMOUS

**GOLDEN BIBLE**

W A S B R O U G H T B E F O R E T H E W O R L D.

**TO WHICH ARE ADDED,**

INQUIRES INTO THE PROBABILITY THAT THE HISTORICAL PART

OF THE SAID BIBLE WAS WRITTEN BY ONE

***SOLOMON SPALDING,***

MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO, AND BY HIM INTENDED TO HAVE

BEEN PUBLISHED AS A ROMANCE.

BY E. D. HOWE.

P A I N E S V I L L E :

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

1834.