Life of Mrs Ann H Judson, Late Missionary to Burmah/Burma & wife of Adoniram Judson ~ ca. 1868 biography by James Knowles ~ Southeast Asia

Title: Life of Mrs. Ann H. Judson, Late Missionary to Burmah; With an Account of the American Baptist Mission to That Empire
Author: Prepared by James D. Knowles / Revised by the Committee of Publication
Publication: American Sunday-School Union: 1122 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 375 Broadway, New York., [circa 1857-1860]

Description: Published circa 1857-1860. Blue cloth boards with copper title and embellishments on spine; top and bottom covers decoratively blind stamped. Spine ends and corners rubbed. Previous owner's name labels on front free endpaper. The interior is clean, aside from a few small spots of soiling and a 1.5 inch ink scribble on page 71. Frontispiece portrait of Judson (with tissue guard) and 8 illustrated plates. 266 pages. 6 x 4 inches. A nice copy with a few flaws.

Biography of Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826), one of the first female American foreign missionaries. Includes details about the traumatic experiences in Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War in the mid-1820s.

Knowles' biography of Judson was first published in 1830. Based on the given addresses of the publisher, this edition was published in the late-1850s. The American Sunday-School Union had its New York depository located at 375 Broadway between May 1857 and July 1860.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Keywords: Christian, missionary, missionaries, Asia, Burma, Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Adoniram Judson, biography,