Williams rev peter (8 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good+. First. 8vo. light-moderate shelf wear. Book.

Paperback. Etat : Good+. First. 8vo. light-moderate shelf wear. Book.

Paperback. Etat : Good+. First. 8vo. light-moderate shelf wear. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. The Rev H A Williams "Meditation for Christmas Day" / Elka Schrijver "'The Miracle of the Netherlands'" / Lili Kowalska "We Came to England" / Arnold Toynbee "The World and the Greeks and Romans" / Francis Watson "The Celestial Damsels of Khajro" / Peter De Mendelssohn "Against the Grain of America's History" / Sam Pollock "Britain's New-Style Coal-Miners" / A R Ubbelohde "Life,Time, and Themodynamics" (Papers). …

Softcover. Etat : Very good. 58 p. 27 cm. Stapled softcover. Light soiling, ink stamp at bottom front.Ink stamp on title page.

Boards. Etat : Fair. First Edition. Fair, 1st ed, 1821. In its original quarter paper over blue printers boards, corners & edges bumped & worn. Worn spine, soiled & cracked, ink titles to paper labels. Internally, [9], (10-189 pp, ([1], (ii-xxiii), ink name to fpd (Tho. ? Davies) ms notes to ep, lacks front blanks, some spotting, book dealer label to fpd (Underhill), top edge cut remainder not. A fair copy, un restored. (Folio, 142*228 mm). (Anderson 345). Title continues: Containing a short sketch of its History, Antiquities, &c. Williams, Church of England clergyman and writer, whose interests were mainly literary, contributed to contemporary journals and patronized promising young writers. Although he was an assiduous copier of the works of medieval poets and a collector of historical minutiae, he can hardly be described as a competent antiquarian. See ODNB for a full Bio. …

Contemporary full leather binding in Fair/Good condition. Boards well worn and soiled due to age. Spine divided into six sections with upper section missing. Hinges fragile with internal cracking, but holding. Last few pages loose. Contents Good. The title page has details of previous owners neatly written in ink as follows - 'Cadwaladr LLoyd his book 1773' 'Thomas Lloyd's book' 'Thomas Lloyd Glan Twrch berchenog y llyf hwn March 30 1922' To inside the back boards is written in ink - ' Robert Roberts Cwmtylo iw gwir berchenog y llyfr hwn'. This is a Welsh language Concordance to the Welsh Bible largely based on a smaller work by Abel Morgan published in 1730 at Philadelphia, USA. Peter Williams was a prominent leader of Welsh methodism in the eighteenth century, best known for publishing Welsh-language bibles and bible commentary. He was born near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Whilst a student at Carmarthen Grammar School in 1743 he was converted to methodism after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield. He was ordained a deacon in 1745. He was refused ordination as a priest due to his methodist beliefs and became associated with water Street Chapel Carmarthen. He joined the Methodists in 1747 and began to tour the country preaching. He began to publish copies of Welsh language bibles at an affordable price. The first edition was published in 1770. He produced commentaries on biblical chapters. However, his commentary on John1 led to suggestions that he sypathized with Sabellianism. In 1791 the matter came to head at a methodist Association at Llandeilo and Williams was expelled. he died at Llandyfaelog on the 8th August 1796.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. First Edition. 90 pages. Features: Christmas Fact and Fantasy; London's Christmas Choirs; Christmas on Duty; Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World; Two Words (short story); The Electric Pen - a hundred years ago a primitive version of the mimeograph provided an unlikely link between Thomas Edison and Lewis Carroll; ; The Tyranny of Things; Seasonal Greetings - tracing the history of Victorian era Christmas Cards - article with lovely colour illustrations; The Model World (fashion model article); Nice colour-photo one-page ad for the Triumph TR7; Camels in America (USA); A True Christmas Story; The Constancy of Coade stone; The Boy Who Stole the Sun (children's story); Toys for Adults; The Carthusian Liqueur; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Calder, Julian; Fordham, Peter; Cooke, Richard (photos) (illustrateur).…