A uniquely crisp and clean example of Smith and Sprague's beautifully produced volume of early American missionaries and missionary-martyrs. Bound in attractive, richly embossed cloth and embellished with superb quality engravings of the missionaries of the era. 

Includes Thomas Coke, Adoniram Judson, Pliny Fisk, Lott Cary, Levi Parsons, etc., plus a handful of internationally influential missionaries, such as William Carey, the martyr John Williams, etc. 

Smith, Lucius E. [Ed.]. & Sprague, William B. Introduction. Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise: A Record of Their Lives and Labors. Including an Historical Review of Earlier Missions. Edited by Lucious E. Smith. With and Introduction by Rev. William B. Sprague, D. D. Hartford. P. Brockett & Co. 1852. 508pp.

A very good copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing. Aside from some very light cloth abrasion at the tips of the spine and corners, rather fine.