---
title: Life of Joseph the Prophet
description: 1878 biography of Joseph Smith by Edward W. Tullidge, a Mormon writer and publisher, written at the request of Mormon leaders; forty-seven chapters, with accounts of Mormon origins, doctrines and the Nauvoo period.
authors:
  - Tullidge, Edward William
collections:
  - history
tags:
  - biography
  - joseph-smith
  - 19th-century
  - mormon-writings
  - history
published: "1878"
publisher: Tullidge & Crandall
publisher_place: New York
edition: First edition (New York, 1878)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'Edward W. Tullidge, *Life of Joseph the Prophet* (New York: Tullidge & Crandall, 1878), "Title Page."'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/lifeofjosephprop00byu2tull
  identifier: lifeofjosephprop00byu2tull
  scan: Brigham Young University copy of the 1878 Tullidge & Crandall edition, Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1878 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads and page numbers removed, library stamps dropped and obvious scan errors corrected; printed pagination kept as page markers. The italic line under each chapter heading is the chapter summary from the original table of contents. Not proofread against the page images.
curator_note: Written by a Mormon author at the request of Brigham Young and published in 1878; treated as a Mormon primary source, included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1878 US publication (New York, Tullidge & Crandall); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/lifeofjosephprop00byu2tull
  publication_year: 1878
  note: Publication year of the edition used is 1878; any modern rights notice in the Internet Archive metadata does not apply to this 1878 text.
---

# Title Page

LIFE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET.

By EDWARD W. TULLIDGE.

NEW YORK.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by TULLIDGE & CRANDALL, In the office oi the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.