12mo. 62pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's purple cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP: 'John Williams / Gift of Friend's first day school / 5 mo. 25th. 1863'.

A charming edition of Mary Martha Sherwood's (1775- 1851) remarkably popular imperialistic tale, set in colonial India, in which Henry, the orphan son of an East India Company officer, strives to convert Boosy his Hindu 'bearer' to Christianity. The boy is taken ill and dies before his task is complete.