A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant Mission to China, (now, in connection with the Malay, Denominated, the Ultra-Ganges Missions.) Accompanied with Miscellaneous Remarks on the Literature, History, and Mythology of China, &c.

Malacca : Printed at the Anglo-Chinese Press, 1820. Octavo, contemporary half morocco marbled papered boards (heavily rubbed), spine contrasting title label lettered in gilt (spine frayed at ends, leather split near head of rear outer hinge and with a couple of small sections of loss); pp. viii, 376; printed on Chinese paper; clean throughout, a very good copy.

After Robert Morrison, William Milne (1785-1822) was only the second Protestant missionary sent to China by the London Missionary Society. Milne worked in Canton, where he acquired his knowledge of the Chinese language. He then collaborated with Morrison to produce the second complete Chinese version of the Bible, and was chief editor of the missionary magazine Chinese Monthly Magazine (Cha sisu meiyue tongjizhuan). Most of Milne’s missionary career was spent in Malacca, where he was principal of the Anglo-Chinese College and editor of the English-language missionary magazine Indo-Chinese Gleaner.

Cordier, BS, 1222; Lust, 927