Author: JOHN (Christopher Samuel):
Title: On Indian Civilization, or Report of a successful experiment, made during two years, on that subject, in fifteen Tamul, and five English native free schools : with proposals for establishing a separate liberal native school society, humbly submitted to the judgment and patronage of the governments of the honourable East-India company; of the respectable religious societies; and the generous and charitable public
Description: London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1813. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 211 x 123 mms., pp. iv, recent boards, with paper label on front cover. A very good copy. Christopher Samuel John (1747 - 1813) sports a long string of prestigious associations and honours after his name on the title-page, but otherwise very little seems to be known about him. He was a skillec concholist, botanisst, and amateur astronomer. He asked the Church Missionary Society to send a missionary to India, Charles Theophilus Eward Rhenius (1790 - 1838), to work among the Tamils. This work appears to have been published after his death. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 20731.1.

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