Bengale

1855 · réf. 24496 — Calcutta: Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press. Good. 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 183 pages; 1855 Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press. HC 1st edition. The original publication of the proceedings from this historic and important conference. Bound in original cloth with "Mission Conference" title lettering in gilt to cover. Cloth boards have decorative ruling and borders in blind. Cloth fades at spine and edges. Pin head and tracks of worming to small areas of the cloth of the upper cover. Insect predation tracks to the endpage surfaces and in the lower gutters of the last and first few leaves. Text block sound and neat with scatters pencil marginalia and underlining. Front endpage with period ownership inscription is detached and laid in with some older glue or tape toning to the gutter edge. Mild fray to cloth at tips and spine ends; mild bumping to boards at corners. A sound and complete copy quite uncommon thus. The conference was very significant in its attention to matters of gender and race bias. Addresses included pointed criticism of corruption and discrimination and suggestions for reform in the agrarian society of Bengal. Scarce in the original edition. A better than Good copy . Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press hardcover