[Grierson, Margaret]. Labourers in the East; or Memoirs of Eminent Men who were devoted to the Service of Christ in India: containing abridged Biographies of the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, Rev. Henry Martyn, and Rev. David Brown. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1840. First American Edition. [9656]
Black calf spine, gilt title & lines, green cloth boards, 6 1/4 x 4 inches, wood-engraved frontispiece, "The Illness of Henry Martyn," 304 pp., tight. Foxing throughout, several turned page corners, binding worn through at the corner tips. Good. Hardcover.
"A charming little book, in which the examples of three eminently pious servants of Christ are set forth in so attractive a manner as can scarcely fail to awaken the desire to go and do likewise." - Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work (1888). p. 107.
Margaret Grierson (c. 1783-1849), a native of Leith, Scotland. She was an evangelical, and a benefactor of the poor. She wrote historical novels of Christian interest, biographies and histories. She joined with the Free Church at the Disruption. Her most famous book is probably Pierre and His Family; or, a Story of the Waldenses (Edinburgh, 1823).