Author: TAYLOR WILLIAM
Title: Story of My Life
Description: New York, Eaton & Mains. 1895, First Edition. Decorative Boards, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Frank Beard. (3000 grams so triple standard shipping rates) 'an account of what I have thought and said and done in my ministry of more than 53 years in Christian Lands and Among Heathen' quarto dark chocolate embossed pressboard (leatherette) binding, gilt titled cover and spine, all edges gilt, corners rubbed to board, spine ends starting to flake, split to bottom of upper joint, binding is intact but due to book size it is fragile and needs careful handling, marbeled endpapers, 770 pages, edited by John Clark Ridpath with original engravings and sketches by Frank Beard, approx 200 illustrations including engraved plates, beautiful and informative look on Africa even without the missionary and biographical content, author was the Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church for Africa. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Methodist Episcopal Church for Africa Bishop Bishop William Taylor African History Colonial Biography Missionary Deluxe Leatherbound Quarto Frank Beard


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