[MISSIONARY PRESS] Collins & Oh. Lao First Reader (1897)

Collins, D. G.; Oh, Nai. Lao First Reader. Chiang Mai, [Thailand]: [NA], 1897. First Edition. [1195] The wrapper is black pebble cloth over paper, cloth is chipped at the edges with loss, about a third of the cloth over the spine is missing, bindings strings loosening with some minor separations, nothing is detached. 6 x 9 1/4 inches, 128 clean pp. Bookplate and blindstamp of a church library. Good. OCLC 422285225; one location. Titles and imprint in Lao with an English title and author names also printed on the title page. Text is in Lao script. Western Lao "spoken in the principality of Chieng-Mai and other districts, and used by the American missionaries." - Darlow & Moule, II-3, p. 1375. The printings at Chieng-Mai (according to D. & M.) were done on the presses of the American Bible Society. The first noted was in 1893, a translation of Matthew's Gospel. The printing of the Lao character, "with a fount of type specially prepared in 1890 by S. C. Peoples, an American Presb