riddoch james (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Zustand: New. In.

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Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. The Third Edition. Rebound hardcover, some shelfwear to half leather board edges. Previous owners plate on inside cover. Tan to text block edges, decoratively speckled. Previous owners name to title page top. Content clear. A nice copy. Please feel free to contact us for further images or information.

2 vols., pp. viii, 379, [1]; viii, 377, [1]; some light offsetting from the turn-ins, contemporary ownership inscription of Margaret Farquharson (of Invercauld) to verso of titles with show-through; but withal a fine copy in contemporary polished calf, red morocco spine labels.First edition. After Riddoch's death in 1779, his old friend James Beattie, professor of moral philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen from 1760, promised Riddoch's poverty-striken widow that he would edit his sermons for publication. By April the following year, though, he was writing to William Forbes:I have, since the college broke up, been hard at work upon Mr. Riddoch's manuscript sermons; but I have only got through five of them, and there are still twenty-five before me. Never did I engage in a more troublesome business. There is not a sentence, there is hardly a line, that does not need correction. This is owing partly to the extreme innacuracy of the writing, but chiefly to the peculiarity of the style; an endless string of climaxes; the unmeasurable length of the sentences; and such a profusion of superfluous words, as I have never before seen in any composition. To cure all these diseases is impossible yet, to do my old friend justice, I must confess, that the sermons have, in many places, great energy, and even eloquence, and abound in shrewd remarks, and striking sentiments. The two volumes finally appeared, without acknowledgment of Beattie's involvement, in 1782, and are unaccountably rare. ESTC shows three copies only: National Library of Scotland, and Aberdeen (2 copies).