Provided by Digital Collections at BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library. "The collection...includes nearly 600 publications, with close to 1 million words of text. It is intended to comprise everything published during Joseph Smith’s lifetime relating to the Book of Mormon" (BYU News Release).
"Published literature relating to the [Book of Mormon] that appeared during the Prophet Joseph Smith's lifetime is one of the best historical windows for understanding how this ancient American scripture was interpreted, used, and understood by early readers. This collection represents an effort to gather together that body of literature and make it available to those interested in the origins of the Book of Mormon" (lib.byu.edu/dlib/bompublications).