Shaw Rev William (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. First published 1950. This hardcover copy is in good condition, with a solid red cloth binding that shows some signs of wear, such as minor scuffs and edge wear. The spine is intact with clear gold lettering. There is no dust jacket, and the pages are clean and unmarked, indicating it has been well-preserved over the years.…

Condition: Fair. 1874. No edition remarks. 271 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Notable cracking to hinges and gutters. Mild thumb-marking present. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Mild water droplets to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Library number to spine. …

Condition: Good. First Edition.. GOOD CONDITION.Book begins with about 17 glossy pages of local (BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA)advert from era of the book's production. last page has been pasted to inner back cover. ; 254pg pages; Christian Endeavor Society music & more.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 322 pages. Red jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover sheet music for SATTB in good condition. Staples rusted. Inscription to first page. 4to. 10pp.

Condition: Good. extremities to the book with foxing and tears but does not affect the content.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket (as issued). First Edition. A collection of 10 essays (written for the Sunday Magazine) concerned with the philosophy, benefits and consequences of prayer. One essay each by the Right Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; the Rev. Theodorre L. Cuyler; the Rev. John Watson ("Ian Maclaren"); the Rev. Canon Knox Little; William Quarrier; Leonard K. Shaw; the Rev. R.F. Horton; the Rev. H. Price Hughes; the Rev. J. Clifford; and the Very Rev. G.D. Boyle, Dean of Salisbury. Brownish/reddish cloth w/silver decorations/lettering to front cover/spine, 124 pages + one-page advertisement for a weekly paper published by Dougall. A bit of edgewear w/moderate wear to corners/spine ends, mild warp to front cover, tanned/dusty/moderately soiled edges, moderate internal soil. Scarce. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. - rather good travelogue through South-Eastern Africa, the Transvaal, during the first and second Kaffir Wars !834 and 1844, with much reflection on the causes of the Wars, the results and the subsequent conditions in the various missions there - he was in Africa from 1819 to 1855, a considerable period for those days - 7 inserted plates showing the countryside and one folding map 19 X 14 inches in fine condition - purple decorated cloth, faded at the spine, gilt still bright, small puncture mid-spine, else a vg tight copy of a scarce book - 1875 ownership signature of prominant Canadian Methodist & NOTL Chautauqua founder Louis C. Peake. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

First Edition. Slim 8vo. xviii, 79pp [1, errata] rebound gilt lettered quarter brown calf. Shaw, W. (William) 1798-1872. Correspondence on Christian missionaries' involvement in British-Xhosa relations at eastern border of Cape Province, South Africa.The on-going sectarian differences, here with the London Missionary Society in relation to the Kaffir war. Balkema p. 95. Mendelssohn II, 310. Excellent Copy. Scarce.…

2 vols. 4to (295 x 220 mm.). First edition. First edition. 2 vols. 4to (295 x 220 mm.). Shaw has come to prominence partly through his friendship with Samuel Johnson, to whom he was introduced in London in 1774. Johnson encouraged him to publish An Analysis of the Gaelic Language, having seen the material in manuscript. Two editions were published in Edinburgh in 1778. The book has been described by a modern Gaelic scholar as 'a rudimentary grammar, with no claim to distinction beyond its being the first published work of its kind' (MacDonald, 4). With the publication of Stewart's Elements of Gaelic Grammar in 1801, Shaw's work was superseded. "In 1780 William Shaw published A Galic and English Dictionary in two volumes, and claimed to have travelled 3000 miles in Scotland and Ireland collecting material for it. Once again he became involved in a public dispute. Disappointed with the quality of the finished product, some of the subscribers refused to make the payment they had guaranteed. In the litigation that followed the lexicographer won his case, though, again, modern critics have not been favourable to the work. Shaw's dictionary has been dismissed as 'a bare list of words and equivalents, at least as many Irish as Scottish Gaelic among them, and as many obsolete as contemporary' (MacDonald, K. D. Macdonald, 'The Rev. William Shaw: pioneer Gaelic lexicographer', Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 50 (1976-8), p.14). " ODNB. Untrimmed in original boards, with a little toning, few spots at ends, boards and free endpapers working loose, spines chipped with backstrips partially lacking. Cloth dropbox.…

First Edition. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. [8], [372]; [2], [306], [4] list of subscribers, which includes James Boswell and Samuel Johnson; text in double column; upper joint cracked otherwise a near fine copy in contemporary full tree calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label; fine. From the library of the celebrated engineer, James Watt, without any sign of ownership, but so recorded in a 19th-century inventory. In all, 209 subscribers took 216 copies from the total print run of 500; other subscribers include Edmund Burke and Joseph Banks. Shaw was a good friend of Johnson who, it is said, offered his assistance with this dictionary. 'In 1780 William Shaw published A Galic and English Dictionary in two volumes, and claimed to have travelled 3000 miles in Scotland and Ireland collecting material for it . Disappointed with the quality of the finished product, some of the subscribers refused to make the payment they had guaranteed. In the litigation that followed the lexicographer won his case, though . modern critics have not been favourable to the work. Shaw's dictionary has been dismissed as a bare list of words and equivalents, at least as many Irish as Scottish Gaelic among them, and as many obsolete as contemporary' (MacDonald, K. D., The Rev. William Shaw: pioneer Gaelic lexicographer, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, (1976, p.14)" (ODNB). Alston XIV, 70.…