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HODGSON, BRIAN HOUGHTON. Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists. 2 folding lithographed alphabet tables. [2], iii, [3], 220 pages. 8vo, 208x129 mm, contemporary (or original?) Anglo-Indian binding of 1/2 calf and marbled boards with ticket ("Bound at the B[aptist] M[ission] Press"); marginal toning, dampstain in lower inner corner of opening leaves, first table partly separated at fold. Serampore, 1841
first collected edition of papers originally published in Transactions and Journal of the Asiatic Societies of Bengal and London. Hodgson (1801-94), a career civil servant in India, "was the first to reveal to the West the Sanskrit literature of northern, or Mahayana, Buddhism, which had been preserved only in Nepal" (ODNB).
