The Ceylon Methodist Church Record. New Series, Volume I, No.1 - Volume VI, No.12, (but bound without Volume V, No.9). de [Wesleyan Methodist Church] - 1907-1913

Colombo, 1907-1913. Six volumes bound in two, folio (37 x 25.5 cm), pp.192, 386; 387-402, (17)-208, (17)-128, 145-192, 192. Bound in contemporary cloth, rather stained and worn. One marginal repair on second volume's first leaf. Contents otherwise in very good condition. A good run of the official organ of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Ceylon, with articles on the missions, congregations, and schools of the church, obituaries of prominent community members, both Sri Lankan and European, prayers, fundraising notices, and more. There are numerous contemporary advertisements for goods and services, including the photography studio of F. Skeen & Co, a minister selling a 1681 first edition of Knox's work on Ceylon, and school places at boarding schools in Kandy and Colombo. We locate runs at the British Library and Manchester only.