4,050 copies (5,000
contracted); published for
Brigham Young, Heber C.
Kimball, and Parley P.
Pratt (by J. Tompkins,
Liverpool, England).
This first European edition
was printed with the
permission of Joseph Smith;
it is essentially a reprinting
of the 1837 edition with
British spellings.
In February 1841, the first
copies of the 1841 edition of
the Book of Mormon were
completed and the copyright
was secured on February
8, 1841.
Though Tompkins was paid
to print 5,000 copies of the
book, only 4,050 were
produced.