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[1886] Dated from a copy held by Spurgeon's College The Wide World and Our Work In It
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Description
Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Very Scarce
First edition.
This very scarce 1886 edition is bound in original blue cloth pictorial boards, and embellished with gilt motifs and lettering to the front board and spine.
Non-denominational Christian missionary and evangelist, Fanny Grattan Guinness, and husband, Henry Grattan Guinness, were involved in the training of hundreds of missionaries across their lifetimes.
Within, Guinness documents a range of their experiences - from missions in China's opium hospitals, to Siberia, and Berlin.
Includes tipped in maps of China, a frontispiece, as well as regular monochrome vignette illustrations.
Also features an index of missionaries working connected with the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions.
Condition
Bound in its original blue pictorial boards. Externally,with damp stain to front board. Shelf wear. The odd marks to boards. Slight rubbing to spine, head, tail, and spine tips. Bookplate of a Francis E. B. Witts and ink inscription to front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, occasional spotting to the edges of text block, and far front and rear pages. Age toning to sections of folding map.
Good
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