1842 MISSIONARY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM. Richard Knill, George Pritchard, Early Indian Missionaries &c.

Fantastic Trans-Atlantic autograph album bound by Noble of Boston. A fascinating album of Boston / American Ownership, but clearly assembled in the United Kingdom, including missionary autographs acquired at the Spilsbury Meetings of the London Missionary Society, etc.  V Very attractive, full leather. Some rubbing, a bit cocked. Very sound and clean and attractive. Extensive contents include: *Full page inscription of the story of Mamotlobogi, a convert of Robert Moffat’s among the Bechuana, this account apparently unpublished. We trace no examples of it elsewhere. Signed by its author, “Horncastle. August 16th, 1842. John Pain.” Pain was minister at Horncastle and an influential missionary preacher.   *Full page non-authorial copy of “There is a calm for those who weep” by Moravian Hymnist, James Montgomery. At the header is a beautiful drawing labeled, “Cheyney St. Boston. W. B. 1851.”   *Full page inscription of the Aaronic blessing in Tahitian and English by influential South Seas