Oceania.- Marshall Islands Printing.- [Doane (Edward Topping)] [Primer of Ebon Dialect], 44pp., with 6 additional leaves bound in (mostly printed on pale blue paper), some with small woodcut illustrations, stitched as issued in original wrappers, upper cover titled in manuscript with presentation inscription from the compiler to R.Anderson DD, manuscript note of alphabet on inside wrapper, a little soiled and frayed at edges, preserved in modern half calf, [Not in Darlow & Moule], 8vo, [Ebon, Ebon Mission Press], [1860].

⁂ Unrecorded early Pacific imprint. Ebon is a small atoll in the Pacific, part of the Marshall Islands. The first printed work in Ebon or Marshallese was part of St.Matthew's Gospel, published in 1858, following the arrival of missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1857. This primer which includes the Lord's Prayer on p.43 and the Ten Commandments on verso was presumably printed by Edward Topping Doane (1820-90), the missionary appointed to Ebon in 1857 until 1862, when his wife died and he left the atoll.