Albert m lyles (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; 1960 Epworth Press. HC original edition. Soundly bound in red cloth lettered in gilt. Ex-library ownership remanants and indications to endpages and top edge of the page block. Prior owner's scattered mild highlighting to the text. Illustrated with reproductions of period graphics. Sound bright reference/reading copy. Good.…

Paperback. New book. Previously published by Epworth Press, 1960. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 192 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. DJ is complete but has light rubbing/wear to edges and a few foxing patches to rear. Prev owners stamp to endpaper. Contents are clean but lightly toned.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.46 inches. In Stock.

Beige Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. xiv., 135 pages, b/w portrait frontis. Minor wear to covers, small tape marks to pastedowns, otherwise contents fine, unmarked. [760] Size: 235mm. x 155mm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. THE DUST JACKET IS SLIGHTLY RUBBED AND HAS SHELF WEAR. THE REAR OF THE D/J HAS HEAVY FOXING. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. THERE IS FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES BUT THE TEXT IS CLEAR. THERE IS A PENNED MARK TO THE FFEP. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG(+). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine (-). 1st Ed. f/piece+191, 4 further ill.plates ex-pagination; would be fine but marred by messily erased signature centre front endpaper. Red cloth covers clean, bright and unworn; jacket in protective sleeve as acquired marred only by trivial rub to bottom front joint. A very nice copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. The Epworth Press, 1960. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 191pp. Edges spotted, d/j a little rubbed, spotted and torn. A fair copy. /0.4uk.

First edition, xiv, 135pp., frontis., orig. cloth. Giving full collations of each work.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In these days, when satire is a fashionable form of rhetoric, no book could make more fascinating reading than this. By comparison with the satire revealed in this book, the modern variety seems pale and mild. Methodism Mocked examines the hostile literary reaction expressed in satire to Methodism and the Methodist leaders, John Wesley and George Whitefield, in the eighteenth century. It considers the basis for satiric attacks on such Methodist practices as field preaching and hymn-singing and on the theological doctrines emphasized by the Methodists, particularly justification by faith and perfection. By considering the attacks on Methodism in terms of eighteenth-century religious thought and literary practice, Methodism Mocked makes comprehensible a reaction long considered as only spiteful and malicious.…

VG orig. red buckram. Prior owner's signature on ffep. 191 p.; 5 halftone pl. (facsimiles from hostile publications); 22 cm. Contents: I The nature of eighteenth-century satire and its relation to Methodism -- II The attack on Methodist enthusiasm -- III Satire of Methodist doctrines -- IV Satire of Methodist preachers and preaching -- V Satire of Methodist practices -- VI Satire of Methodist converts and conversion -- VII Satire of John Wesley -- VIII Satire of George Whitefield -- IX Satire of other Methodists --- X The Methodists and the Church [of England] -- XI The conventions of the satires -- Bibliography -- Index. Facsimile plates from: Sketches for tabernacle-frames, 1778, frontispiece: `Toothless, he draws the teeth of all his flocks'; The saints. A satire, 1778, title-page; Perfection, a poetical epistle, 1778: frontispiece. `Calmly addressed to the greatest Hypocrite in England' (John Wesley); The temple of imposture, a poem, 1778: frontispiece. Describes Mahomet interceding for the Methodists with the goddess Furina; The love-feast, a poem, 1778: `Reynardo's consecration by the goddess Murcia'. Binding is Hardcover.…

1st ed. Examines the hostile literary reaction expressed in satire to Methodism and the Methodist leaders, John Wesley and George Whitefield, in the 18th century. Pp. 191, frontis, 4 b/w illustns. Book plate label to verso front board. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w top edge chipped. G+/G.

Zustand: Good. A lot of dirty marks, a few tears, creases and wear on jacket. Also a couple of pen marks on outer edge of pages and a name and date has been handwritten on first blank page. Content is fine.