Reginald Heber: Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, by the Late Right Rev. Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta

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Reginald Heber : Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, by the Late Right Rev. Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta

John Murray, London, c. 1828.

Recent ½ blind-lined calf and marble boards, rebacked expertly in five compartments of raised gilt-lined bands, gilt calf labels on two and three, gilt text on five, edges speckled red. , A very good copy, text and plates are clean and crisp., 4to. , P. Volume 1. (4), frontis, title, printer’s imprint, dedication iii-iv, preface v-x, contents xi-xv, list of plates, list of subscribers 1-3, blank, journal xvii-xlvii, blank, 1-631, printer’s imprint, (4); Volume 2. (4), frontis, title, printer’s imprint, contents iii-vi, list of plates, blank, 1-515, printer’s imprint, (4)., Complete with 11 hand-coloured plates, including an outline hand-coloured map of India., Volume : Two volumes.

Bookplate of D.B. de Moleyns., Reginald Heber (1783-1826) served as the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, a role which extended beyond the confines of Calcutta and even India to congregations in Africa and throughout Asia. The post was very demanding and his time was made up mostly of traveling throughout India, visiting local congregations in the upper plains of the Ganges, the mountains of Kumaon, the deserts of Rajputana, and south by sea to the island of Ceylon. He was instrumental in the establishment of Bishop’s College in Calcutta, whose main purpose was for training Anglican clergymen. His journal of his work was eventually published in 1828, sadly two years after his death while visiting the south of India. The book was greatly popular, and saw five new editions by 1844. Contemporary and recent historians have praised the work, finding interest “in his description of the people and their culture and in his observation of the great natural beauty of India’s rivers and mountains” (Riddick 123). , Dictionary of National Biography; Riddick 123.

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