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WILSON, JOHN. Refutation of Muhammadism, in Reply to Haji Muhammad Hashim. Title in English followed by Hindustani text. [2], 126 pages. entirely lithographed throughout. 8vo, 209x131 mm, contemporary wrappers, backstrip lacking, covers torn and loose; opening leaves dog-eared, blank lower margin torn off title, next leaf soiled in lower margin, contents otherwise clean. Bombay: (Ganpat Krishnaji for) Tract & Book Society, 1834
number 23 of 2000 copies in Hindustani. Wilson (1804-75) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary and educator in India who engaged in extensive disputations with local religious leaders in public and in print. This is a relatively early example of lithographic printing in Bombay, which was introduced there in the later 1820s. COPAC records only the copy at Newcastle University; OCLC locates another at Andover Newton Theological School.
