A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China, (now, in connection with the Malay, denominated, the Ultra-Ganges Missions)

Edité par Anglo-Chinese Press, Malacca, 1820

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Detailed account of missionary work in the Far East 1807-1819, printed in Malacca on Asian paper Milne, William; Morrison, Robert. A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China, (now, in connection with the Malay, denominated, the Ultra-Ganges Missions), 1820. Malacca. Anglo-Chinese Press.8vo, (225 x 145 mm). Set in roman and italic type, dozens of pages with a few Chinese characters set in movable type. Printed on Asian paper with horizontal chain-lines. Contemporary half blue paste-paper, plain paper sides with a near contemporary printed label (11 x 9 cm) of K.J. Ford's Circulating Library (117 Upper Street, Islington, London) with manuscript book number 1321 filled in on the label and manuscript "terms of reading this book" below the label, slightly rubbed and stained, with the spine and corners worn, but otherwise good. Occasional marginal chips and small tears and occasional minor and mostly marginal foxing, but otherwise in very good condition and nearly untrimmed, some leaves preserving the edges of the paper as it went through the press and the point holes (the sheets of Asian paper may have been neatly torn before printing to give the dimensions of a normal Western octavo). First edition, printed in Malacca, a detailed account of a wide variety of missionary activities in China, Southeast Asia and the East Indies by the Scottish Protestant missionaries Robert Morrison (1782-1834), who arrived in Macau in 1807, and William Milne (1785-1822), who joined him there in 1813. They were the first Protestant missionaries in China, made the second complete Chinese translation of the Bible, set up two printing offices (including the press at Malacca that produced the present book) and established the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca under the auspices of the London Missionary Society in 1818. An essential primary source for any study of missionary activities in China and Southeast Asia, with very detailed information about Chinese printing and other matters. Both the Chinese government and the Roman Catholic missionaries under the protection of the Portuguese were hostile toward the Protestant missionaries and they were forced to flee several times, eventually working in Macau, Canton, Guangzhou, Java, Singapore, Penang and Malacca. Malacca was still under Dutch control at the time of publication, but in 1824 the Dutch were to turn it over to the British, who already had a large presence there. The book gives detailed information of the various books Morrison and Milne translated and printed, with a 66-page chapter giving a remarkably detailed account of the techniques and economics of Chinese printing, both from woodblocks and from movable type, including costs for cutting a specific number of characters and the rates of production of the Chinese workmen. This chapter also includes extensive and detailed lists of Chinese books printed by the missionary presses and an appendix gives an account of Malay books, for which Milne acknowledges information from the missionary C.H. Thomsen. With an early owner's name on an endleaf, difficult to read, a pencil date 8 July 1858 on the paste-down, and the ink stamp of the Selbourne Library on the back of the title-page and in the foot margin of another page, meaning the collection of the French-born Manchester physician and bibliophile (Henri Armand) Hugh Selbourne (1906-1973). Rarity: we locate copies at the University of Aberdeen, National Library of Scotland, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and National Library of Malaysia. VIII, 376 pp. Cordier, Sinica, col. 1222; J. Lust, Western books on China 927; The label not in the John Johnson Collection at Oxford University. A full description is available upon request.…

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A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China, (now, in connection with the Malay, denominated, the Ultra-Ganges Missions)
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Milne, William; Morrison, Robert
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Anglo-Chinese Press, Malacca
Année de publication
1820
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