Armstrong, E. S. The History of the Melanesian Mission (1900)

Armstrong, E. S. The History of the Melanesian Mission. London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1900. First Edition. [7427] Light blue cloth, spine darkened, 9 x 6 inches, scratch to front cover, pinprick size holes from worming along the outside hinges, 1 inch trail of the same on the front paste-down. Red ink name stamp in Chinese characters on ffep. Frontispiece portrait of Bishop Selwyn, xxviii., folding map & additional illustrations. The book is a bit shaken with nothing separated or detached. Good. Hardcover. "The following history was undertaken at the request of the families of the first three Bishops who stand out in its pages, and whose personality I have striven, however imperfectly, to set forth, feeling strongly that, here if anywhere, personal character and influence have been the corner-stone of the edifice. Mission Reports, biographies, diaries, letters, have all been fully consulted and freely used...Further, for this work I have had the inestimable advantage of per