Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

8vo. 160 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's catalogue with insert for The Illustrated Missionary News, [4] pp. Bound in original red cloth with titles and blocks in gilt and black. Pictorial endpapers with publisher's series lists Extremities worn including corners and head and tail of spine which is sunned. Hinges starting to crack and some scattered foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. 1891 gift inscription of the Rev, James Calvert. Illustrated by frontispiece and by wood engraved text figures, including whole page. Decorated by title page and chapter heading vignettes. Biographical account of the Methodist, James Calvert (1813-92), particularly focusing on his missionary work on Fiji, 1838-55 and 1861-64. He oversaw the spread of Christianity on the island and converted the king, who later ceded Fiji to Britain. The book is dated from the facsimile letter on page 8.