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    By Edward Bean Underhill
    London   Jackson, Walford, and Hodder
    7" by 5" x, 493pp
    The first edition of this very scarce societal and religious survey of the West Indies, by English missionary secretary Edward Bean Underhill.
    By Edward Bean Underhill

    1862 The West Indies: Their Social and Religious Condition

    London   Jackson, Walford, and Hodder
    7" by 5" x, 493pp
    The first edition of this very scarce societal and religious survey of the West Indies, by English missionary secretary Edward Bean Underhill.
    £85.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 979Y19
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    Description

    First Edition, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

    First edition. A very scarce title. 

    Bound in half crushed morocco, with a Norfolk & Norwich Library bookplate to the front board.

    This account of the West Indies, Trinidad and Jamaica (published after the author's time spent there in 1859) serves to describe the religious condition of the numerous Baptist Churches which had been formed. The book details the author's journey there as well as the state and progress of churches, the Sunday Schools, missionary work, sugar labourers, languages, immigration and various religious beliefs and practices. 

    From Edward Bean Underhill, an English missionary secretary and Baptist historian. This visit of his was undertaken at the request of the Treasurer and Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society. 





    Condition

    Bound in half crushed morocco, with a Norfolk & Norwich Library bookplate to the front board. Externally, joints are tender. With wear to the extremities and loss to the spine. With a large institutional bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and a tide mark to the verso of the vignette title and to the title page.

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