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1896 What He Did for Convicts and Cannibals. Some Account of the Life and Work of Rev. Samuel Leigh
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition of this work.
Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven illustrated plates. Collated, complete.
A fascinating biography of Samuel Leigh, a prominent minister and missionary for the Wesleyan Methodist Church in early colonial New South Wales and New Zealand.
The settlement of Leigh, to the north of Auckland, New Zealand, is named for him.
With a Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School prize bookplate to the front free endpaper, addressed to Philip Cown, dated 1914.
With eight pages of advertisements to the rear.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Bumps to back strip head and tail. Prize bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good Indeed
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