THE STORY OF SERAMPORE AND ITS COLLEGE.
Pp. 124, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, appendices; qr. beige cloth, spine lettered in black, cream printed papered boards, lightly foxed and soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; name in ink at head of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers offset, upper hinge starting, a little light foxing; The Council of Serampore College, 1961. New edition. *With loosely inserted errata slip and related ephemera. Originally published in 1918, to mark the centenary of the founding of the college; later revised and reprinted in 1927. This new edition, entirely re-written, was issued to celebrate the birth of the college founder, William Carey (1761-1834). Known as the father of modern missions, Carey translated the Bible into several Indian languages, including Bengali and Sanskrit. Item #125453
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