Five issues: 1882, 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1888. Various pagination (from 46-64 pages), totalling just under 300 pages including wrappers, occasional decorations, double page map at centre of three issues (1884, 1885 & 1888), each issue ending with A Prayer for the Melanesian Mission; demy 8vo; self-wrappers, the first three issues stabbed and tied, others stapled; bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrappers, name in ink at head of upper wrapper of 1884 issue, a little light creasing, a few marginal chips or closed tears, backstrip and upper wrapper of the 1885 issue chipped and torn, some light foxing and soiling; C. A. Partridge, Ludlow, 1883-1889. *Accounts of Melanesian Mission voyages to Norfolk Island, the Banks Group and the Solomon Islands. Contributors include: Bishop John Selwyn (1844-1989) and his fellow missionaries the Reverends John Palmer (1837-1902), Alfred Penny (1854-1934), Arthur Brittain, Richard Blundell Comins (1848-1919), John Hartford Plant, Charles Bice, and Thomas Cartwright Cullwick (1862-1948). Loosely inserted is a prospectus for Ten Years in Melanesia, by Rev. Alfred Penny.. Item #100234