rev thomas boston (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover. No date found.c1896. Text unmarked with some page-turn soiling. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/soiling and bumped corners. Front hinge cracked and binding loosening but still intact. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Sermons on the Most Important and Interesting Subjects delivered chiefly on Communion Occasions, by the Rev. Thomas Boston. Printed by Edward Knull &Co. for W. Somerville, A, Fullarton, J. Blackie, & Co. Booksellers, Glasgow 1814. vi, 642 pages with frontis. Original binders boards, rough cut edges. Sporadic publisher vertical page creases; off setting from frontispiece to title and free endpaper. Wave to pages although no evidence of moisture stains or mustiness. Pages are clean without marks or tears; some pages remain unopened and binding is tight. Reverend Thomas Boston. 1677-1732. was a Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher whose prodigious output of writings were influential, widely read and reprinted as recently as 2002. His sermons in particular were valued for being written in plain clear language and thereby accessible for the lay person. This singular early edition of selected sermons is quite rare outside of library and institution collections.

Zustand: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Pub date unknown, c.1920. Contains pen underlining. Black marks to back end page, cover is quite worn. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

5pp., 4to. On bifolium and single leaf. Good, on lightly-aged paper. On the reverse of the last leaf is the following note in light pencil: 'I believe was written by the Rev. T. Binney for the Christian Examiner but never appeared in that Paper because not rec[eive]d. - William Enington'. The review, with occasional minor deletions and emendations, is headed 'Judas Iscariot, a Miracle Play, with other Poems. By R. H. Horne. Post. 8vo. pp.64.' It begins: 'Some of our readers will be startled by the title of this book; it will require some time for them to recover their surprize, & still more for them to become quite clear that the author is justified in his adventurous task.' It concludes: 'With many doubts as to the propriety of throwing so sacred a subject into a dramatic form, we cannot but acknowledge, that to those who can thoughtfully peruse the book, as an attempt seriously to illustrate truth & character, it is adapted to afford very great pleasure, as it displays in the writer unquestionable genius & diversified ability.'.