Moffat (Robert)

MISSIONARY LABOURS AND SCENES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Published: London, No date (circa 1870)

Stock Number: #3970/1

Price: R1,500

162 pages, 8vo (228 x 150 mm), engraved frontispiece portrait of Moffat, title page vignette, the text is set in two columns and some of the illustrations from the first edition are set in the text, recent half brown calf, marbled boards, this issue was bound in paper wrappers and the original pictorial upper wrapper is bound in at the front. Thirty-fifth thousand

This impression can be dated by a publisher's advertisement at the front for Ellis's 'The Martyr Church of Madagascar' which was published in 1870. It is interesting to note that thirty-five thousand copies of Moffat's book were published between 1842 and 1870.