EXPECTATIONS WESTWARD: The Mormons and the Emigration of their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century.

First edition, first printing. Signed and dated by the author. From the library of Brynmor Jones. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout.

Signed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper "from Philip Taylor / May 1965". An exploration the relationships between Mormon theology, the early history of the Mormon Church in America, its missionary activities in Britain, its colonising work in Utah, and the planned emigration of its British converts. Taylor was a lecturer in History in the Department of American studies at the University of Hull. Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.