Author: Wallance, Lew & Prout, Voctor [illustrator]
Title: Ben Hur
Description: The British India Publishing Company, Calcutta, nd c 1940, reprint. Faux leather, G. 630pp, b/w frontis, 6 b/w plates, some worming just affecting the text, a fair copy. The text block is that of Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics series, here called the 'Masterpieces of Literature' & intended for the colonial market. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Wallace's 1880 Biblical tale, which was one of the most influential Christian books of the 19th century.

Keywords: christianity