Very rare periodical in any format, containing extensive accounts of Baptist history, missionary work. theology, and of some interest for the local revivals recounted which were springing up all of the United Kingdom at this time. Dozens of mentions of slavery and the slave trade. 

Contents include:

Providence and Grace; Extensive Review of The Church Awakened - Report of the Special Meetings for Revival at Surrey Chapel; Review of The Revivalist Magazine; Revival Services at Bourn; A Converted Jew Now a General Baptist Preacher; A Hymn for Mariners in All Weathers; Return of Mrs. Noyes from the American Free-Will Baptist Society; History and Scenery of Sierra Leone; Early Preaching of General Baptist, Dan Taylor [1770]; Extensive Reivew of Robert Haldane's Exposition of the 9th Chapter of Romans; Extracts from the Journal of Gunga Dhor, a Native Brahmin; Shipwreck of Missionaries; New Translations from the Calcutta Press; Increasing Baptisms in Jamaica; Biography of John Etches [series]; The Progress of Popery; Affective Providence Improved; The Church of Ephesus; The Missionary's Farewell; The Life of Byragee - Recently Baptized by Mr. Stubbins in India; Continued Persecution in Madagascar; An Ordination Address by J. G. Pike; The Christian Deacon; Extensive Review of Owenism [Christian Socialism]. A Debate between Alexander Campbell and J. T. Bannister; The Missionary Journal of Mr. Stubbins [series]; The Protestant Society for the Protection of Civil and Religious Liberty; The Mayflower Missionaries [1620] by James Pierpont; Motives to Sabbath Morning Worship; Account of the Conversion, Persecution, and Sufferings of John Tebbutt by James Smith; Punctuality to Public Worship; Idolatry in India; Sabbath Morning Prayer-Meetings; On Christian Obligations to Civil Duties; Sunday-School Libraries; Christianity the Regenerator of the World; Mahommedan Devotion; Missionary Records of the Sandwich Isles; Revival Meetings at Shrewsbury; Disciples of Zoroaster Baptized; Abolition of Slavery by the Pasha in Egypt; Calvinism and Arminianism; Preaching in the Open Air; Infernal Conduct of the Enemies of Negro Freedom; etc. 

The General Baptist Repository and Missionary Observer for 1839 Complete. London. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1839. 376pp.

Attractive half leather, rubbed as shown, but very nicely patinated and very sound. General title lacking.