Octavo (213 x 138 mm); 48pp, including thirteen full-page woodcut maps, folding ‘Chronological Chart of the Progress of the Missionary Society’. Blue printed wrappers. London : Church Missionary Society, 1857.
The maps include China, New-Zealand and Rupert’s Land (Canada). With its main focus on India, the atlas appeared at a pivotal moment. The preface is dated 1st May 1857; on 10th May, the Indian Mutiny began.
