Author: DARLOW, T.H. (LITERARY SUPERINTENDENT/INTROD. NOTE),
Title: The Highway in the Wilderness: A Popular Illusrated Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society for the Year MDCCCVII-VIII [1907-1908]. [First edition].
Description: London, The Bible House, 1908. Small 8°. Original publ. cloth. Illustrated front cover with bold gilded type title, gilded spine. 119pp. Captioned monochrome frontispiece, 13 captioned monochrome plates of which illustrating indigenous population groups, namelist of board of directors, nemelists of domestic and foreign commitee members, secretaries and agents, table of contents. English language annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society in which progress of evangelisation in strange lands is recorded: Dutch East Indies (Java and Batak districts of Sumatra), Upper Egypt, British India, Canada, etc. A fine copy in orig. publ. cloth. (endpapers a bit discouloured and spotted).

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