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2 volumes. xxiv, 800; [801]-1600 pp. Numerous illustrations from photographs, including portraits of participants in the parliament, other religious personages, religious edifices throughout the world, etc. 8¾x5¾, original blue cloth lettered in gilt and silver. First Edition

Signed and inscribed by the editor and by many of the participants next to their photographs, including: Swami Vivekananda, Virchand A. Gandhi, Charles Carroll Bonney, Laura Ormiston Brant, and signed by B.B. Nagarkar next to his essay "The Work of Social Reform in India" and with a signed cabinet photograph of him laid in. This was the "World's First Parliament of Religions", held in connection with the Colombian Exposition of 1893.