{"title":"Biographies","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"1813-memoirs-of-the-life-amp-ministry-of-the-rev-thomas-spencer-of-liverpool","title":"1813 Memoirs of the Life \u0026 Ministry of the Rev Thomas Spencer of Liverpool","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"ds_div\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemoirs of The Life And Ministry of The Late Reverend Thomas Spencer, of Liverpool\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Thomas Raffles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted by G F Harris's Widow \u0026amp; Brothers, Liverpool, 1813. Full leather binding with gilt decoration, 8vo, gilt to all edges, sil endpapers, pp viii, 461, [xxxiii Appendix], Errata slip at rear, portrait frontispiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEx-library but in good condition. The leather binding is in good solid condition but has a few  small library reference nubers on the spine, endpapers good but front has usual library cards, etc, in stamp to title page and to the verso of the title page plus one other stamp to the last page. Pages good throughout and all contents present. Overall a good solid copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Spencer (1791–1811) \u003c\/b\u003ewas an English Congregational minister. The second son of a worsted-weaver, Spencer was born at Hertford on 21 January 1791, and lost his mother at the age of five. He had to leave school and help his father in his business when 13; about 18 months later he was apprenticed for a short time to a glover in The Poultry, in the City of London. While here he was introduced to Thomas Wilson, treasurer of the Hoxton Dissenters' Training College for Ministers. He was admitted there in January 1807, after a year's preparation at Harwich, during which he studied Hebrew, and made an abridgment of John Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn June 1807 Spencer first preached in public at Collier's End, near Hertford, at age 16; and was invited to preach in the neighbouring villages and at Hertford. When barely 17 he was allowed to appear in the pulpit at Hoxton, against the rules. He became a popular preacher in the neighbourhood of London, and in December 1808 preached at Lady Huntingdon's chapel at Brighton. On 10 January 1809 he addressed large congregation from Rowland Hill's pulpit in Surrey Chapel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving visited Liverpool in the summer of 1810, Spencer on 26 September accepted an offer of the pastorate of Newington chapel there. He entered on his duties in February 1811, and on 27 June was ordained in the chapel in Byrom Street. At first he preached from 65 to 75 minutes; later, under medical advice, he limited his discourses to three-quarters of an hour. A new chapel, with accommodation for 2,000 people, was built for him, with the foundation-stone laid on 15 April.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpencer was drowned while bathing near the Herculaneum Pottery on 5 August 1811, and was buried on the 13th at Liverpool. Many funeral sermons and elegies were published. An elegy by James Montgomery was appended to the Memoirs of Spencer written by his successor at Liverpool, Thomas Raffles. An engraving by Blood, accompanied four Poems (1811) on his death by Ellen Robinson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e(Loc: Home LR shelf )\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44845353599284,"sku":"","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/products\/temp_image_0_a00f1677-8b4e-4956-9974-2a0cf5c0d2db.jpg?v=1681045447"},{"product_id":"1916-little-journeys-to-the-homes-of-great-statesmen-unusual-embossed-binding","title":"1916 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Statesmen - Unusual Embossed Binding","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"ds_div\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\" rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Journeys to the Homes of Great\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Statesmen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Elbert Hubbard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York \u0026amp; Chicago, W. H. Wise \u0026amp; Co. 1916. Printed and made into a book by the Roycrofters, which is in East Aurora, Erie county, New York. Hardback book in original brown leatherette with debossed tree design on front board (unusual binding). 305 pages, illustrated, beautifully printed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of short biographies of famous American statesmen by Elbert Hubbard, one of the leading figures in the Arts \u0026amp; Crafts movement in the United States, who founded the Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY. The hand-crafted items they produced are widely collected for their quality and aesthetic appeal, and the buildings which comprised the Roycroft Campus currently enjoy the status of historical landmarks. Hubbard wrote 14 volumes for this series and this is volume III from that series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA good copy. The binding is good. All contents present and pages very clean throughout. 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Complete in Three Volumes. Half leather bindings with marble sides, gilt spines, pp 533, 470, 522 (includes index in volume 3).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA good set. The leather bindings remain in good order with no cracking to the hinges or damage, perhaps a little light rubbing to the head and tail of the spines. All contents present and the pages are good throughout and free from foxing, stains etc. Endpapers a little brown with age. Overall a good complete set.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist. Politically, he was a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as \"arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history\". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as \"the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Boswell\u003c\/b\u003e, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of his friend and contemporary, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. 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First Edition. Fine binding, half leather with gilt spine, marble endpapers, gilt to top edge, 473 pages, illustrated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lovely finely bound first edition. The leather binding remains good, front cloth board has a light grubby mark. Endpapers very good. No writing or names. Pages good throughout. Little spotting to the tissue guard that protects the frontis. Overall a good first edition in a handsome binding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Stephen Rainsford\u003c\/b\u003e (October 30, 1850 − December 17, 1933) was the rector of St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square in New York from 1882 to 1906.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was born in Dublin to Marcus Rainsford, who was a chaplain in a hospital for the blind. 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Compton-Burnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eplus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSECRETS OF A WOMAN'S HEART\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Later Life of I. Compton-Burnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth books published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1974 and 1984 respectively. First Editions. Hardback book with dust jackets. pp  319 + 336. Illustrated with b\u0026amp;w photographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth books in very good clean condition throughout. The dust jackets are in good condition with their original prices intact. All contents present and pages clean throughout. No names or writing to the books. Very good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvy Compton-Burnett\u003c\/b\u003e (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. 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No names or writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eIn this book the former curator of the Sarawak Museum has collected a wide range of stories from indigenous peoples in Sarawak about life before the changes brought about in the 20th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e(Bindery A2)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54687229149561,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_3463190b-564f-4bbe-947e-f7ab07f5b89e.webp?v=1731693682"},{"product_id":"fanny-burney-the-burneys-r-b-johnson-hardback-1st-edition-1926","title":"Fanny Burney \u0026 The Burneys, R. 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Brimley Johnson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePublished by Stanley Paul \u0026amp; Co Ltd, London, 1926. First edition. Hardback cover, 405 pages. Black \u0026amp; white illustrations and photographs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall fair condition - see photos. Some fading\/marks\/wear to hardcover especially at edges\/corners\/spine. Pencil inscription to front free end paper. Small ex libris sticker to front paste down end paper. Foxing to fore and bottom edges, and end papers. No writing\/notes\/marks in text. Images crisp \u0026amp; clear throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eFrances Burney (Fanny Burney) was a British novelist who wrote four novels, eight plays, and one biography in her lifetime, and left behind 20 volumes of journals and letters after her death. Self-educated, Burney began writing at the age of 10, and published her first novel, Evelina, anonymously in 1778. Burney followed Evelina's success with Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer, all of which explored the lives of English aristocrats and the role of women in society. Burney s novels were enormously popular during her lifetime, inspiring both Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray, and her journals are recognized for their uncommonly accurate and candid portrayal of 18th-century England. Burney died in Bath, England, in 1840.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e(Bindery shelves  A4)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54795378590073,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_47afc12e-8c03-4f8e-be69-49da9f7be4cd.jpg?v=1732030362"},{"product_id":"henry-jamess-waistcoat-letters-to-mrs-ford-1907-1915-hardback-limited-ed","title":"Henry James's Waistcoat - Letters to Mrs Ford, 1907 - 1915: Hardback: Limited Ed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry James's Waistcoat: Letters to Mrs Ford, 1907 - 1915\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForeword by Philip Horne, edited by Rosalind Bleach.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Stone Trough Books, York, 2007. Limited edition of 600 copies. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 79 pages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall fair condition - see photos. Some wear\/water marks to dustjacket, particularly at the back. Actual hardcover in very good condition. Gift inscription to author James Runcie to frontispiece. Otherwise no names or writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eWhen, in 1999, Rosalind Bleach discovered some forty letters from Henry James in a bureau that had belonged to her mother, she was naturally astonished. Her mother had never mentioned their existence. They were written to Mrs Ford, a friend and country neighbour whose name appears only occasionally in James's notebooks. As Philip Horne writes, the fine old letters 'breathe an air of relaxed affection and intimate warmth that makes \"Henry James's Waistcoat\" a comfort to - well, put on'. And the story they tell is framed by the editor's account of the mysterious way the letters came down to her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e(Bindery shelf B2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54795381211513,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_b2b65cff-1c70-4b37-b2bc-b01758c8f51a.jpg?v=1732030532"},{"product_id":"alfred-edward-housman-recollections-by-katharine-e-symons-et-al-1st-ed-1936","title":"Alfred Edward Housman : Recollections by Katharine E Symons et al : 1st Ed 1936","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred Edward Housman : Recollections \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Katharine E. Symons, A. W. Pollard, Laurence Housman, R. W. Chambers, Alan KEr, A. S. F. Gow and John Sparrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished at Bromsgrove School for the Housman Memorial Fund, 1936. Limited to 500 copies. Hardback, large 8vo, 60 pages, illustrated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA good copy of this limited edition. The covers are good but with a few small redish marks (see images). Endpapers good. No writing or names to the book. Pages clean throughout. Overall very good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred Edward Housman\u003c\/b\u003e (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by first publishing as a private scholar. Later Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. He is now acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest classical scholars of any time. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1896, he emerged as a poet with A Shropshire Lad, a cycle in which he poses as an unsophisticated and melancholy youth. After a slow start, this captured the imagination of young readers, its preoccupation with early death appealing to them especially during times of war. In 1922 his Last Poems added to his reputation, which was further enhanced by the large number of song settings drawn from these collections. Following his death, further poems from his notebooks were published by his brother, Laurence. It was then too, though Housman had made no admission himself, that his sexual orientation began to be questioned. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Loc : Desk, Top Shelf, Far Right)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54800670785913,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/housman.jpg?v=1732206077"},{"product_id":"a-stepson-of-edinburgh-j-k-graham-hardback-1st-ed-william-falconer-1925","title":"A Stepson of Edinburgh, J.K. Graham: Hardback: 1st Ed: William Falconer: 1925","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Stepson of Edinburgh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy John Keddie Graham.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Sands \u0026amp; Co, London, 1925. First Edition. Hardback cover, no dustjacket, 158 pages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall acceptable condition - see photos. Wear \u0026amp; fading to spine. Small marks\/wear to hardcover. Foxing to bottom \u0026amp; fore edge. No names or writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eEleven out of the twelve papers included in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis volume are published for the first time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe twelfth is that on William Falconer, which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eappeared in The Scotsman of January 17th, 1925, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand is reprinted here by kind permission of the\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eEditor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe subjects are all Scotsmen and the caption \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof No. V has been chosen as the title of the volume \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor no other reason than that it indicates the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScottish nature of the contents. Apart from that, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit may be said paradoxically that the only feature \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe subjects have in common is their difference \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom each other. It is hoped that the variety \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethereby assured will enhance the appeal.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eThe author has not, in any instance, aimed at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean exhaustive presentation of his theme: that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewould demand a volume larger than this for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eevery separate character. He has sought, in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estead, to state an impression, and to accompany \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit with as much of an outline of fact as would \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eserve to justify and illustrate it.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eThe papers are arranged in the chronological \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eorder of the personalities they deal with.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Bindery shelves)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54802511430009,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_3cea149c-fa43-4292-a72c-be972cbf9795.webp?v=1732275382"},{"product_id":"frank-tindall-memoirs-confessions-of-a-county-planning-officer-h-b-1st-ed","title":"Frank Tindall, Memoirs \u0026 Confessions of a County Planning Officer: H\/B: 1st Ed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank Tindall: Memoirs \u0026amp;amp; Confessions of a County Planning Officer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Frank Tindall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by The Pantile Press, Ford, Midlothian, 1998. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 325 pages. Includes black \u0026amp;amp; white photography and illustrations throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverall very good condition - see photos. Minimal wear to edges of dustjacket and bottom spine of hardcover. No names or writing. Images crisp \u0026amp;amp; clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany people are mystified by the Town Country Planning System. These memoirs go a long way to explaining the role and methods of physical planners in local government. They portray an exceptionally creative planner working in the tradition of Sir Patrick Geddes and representative of the generation of idealists who, after the 1939-45 war, were determined to make the world a better place to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book contains first a picture of East Lothian and an analysis of its problems as found in 1950; then a chapter on the four principles of the Development Plan - the prevention of the suburbanisation, the checking of rural depopulation, the provision for the region's recreational needs and the consolidation of all settlements - and how they worked out on the ground. But plans are only good when they lead to action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the period 1950-75 the County led Scotland and indeed Britain in the conservation of towns and villages, the rescue of historic buildings and the management of the coastline. Frank Tindall did more than virtually anyone else to preserve the best of our county towns. He did it at a time when the town-planning establishment ridiculed his ideas. While other planners awarded each other honours for ugly redevelopments that were seen by the fashionable as exciting and innovative, Frank Tindall's approach to planning was to see the beauty in what was already there, to find new uses for, and ways to work on, restoring old buildings and to keep the ancient street plans of the towns for which he was responsible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is not a fusty record taken from Council Minutes but a lively memory of how things were and how they were changed, It is an entertaining and illuminating account of what the author described as \"the halcyon days of Town and County Planning\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Bindery shelves A2)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54815306940793,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_025e4d5c-a740-4317-8782-e4ec48a4a609.webp?v=1732891518"},{"product_id":"dr-john-brown-his-sister-isabella-e-mlaren-clothbound-1st-edition","title":"Dr John Brown \u0026 His Sister Isabella, E. M'Laren: Clothbound: 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr John Brown \u0026amp; His Sister Isabella\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy E. T. M'Laren.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1890. First Edition. Clothbound, 59 pages. Includes sepia photograph of Dr John Brown to front end paper, plus some black \u0026amp; white illustrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall fair condition commensurate with age - see photos. Some wear to corners and spine of clothbound hardcover. Inscription \"Lady Thomson Nov 1890\" to frontispiece. Otherwise no names or writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eThese Sketches are written by a dear friend of ours, known to all of us from childhood as ' Cecy.' She had unusual opportunities of thoroughly knowing my brother and sister, having been with them in joy and sorrow, in health and sickness, sharing and heightening their happiness, and doing more than we can know or understand to lighten their sadness. What she wrote has been read in manuscript by many of the intimate friends of Dr. John Brown and his sister Isabella all have recognized the faithfulness of the portraits. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eI may quote from a letter written to me by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who knew my brother well, although he never saw him, and loved him as every one did who really knew him : ' I felt every word of it at my heart's root, to use Chaucer's expression. The life itself is so angelically sweet —the nature which won the love of the English and American reading world showed itself so beautifully in his daily life — that no portrait-painter who pictures life in words could ask a more captivating subject. And the writer has wrought her labor of love in a manner worthy of her subject. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eAll is simple, natural, truthful ; and the little Memoir leaves an impression as clear and as sweet as if the loving disciple himself had written it. I mean these words to come under the eye of the writer. I trust you will see that they do.' We know that there are very many true friends of my brother and sister who would wish to read the sketches, and to possess a copy of them, to whom, however, this is impossible while they remain in manuscript; our friend has yielded to our wish that they should be printed, and I am sure she will have the thanks of all such. The engraving of Symington Church and Churchyard is from a pencil-drawing made by Ewbank for my father. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eALEX. CRUM BROWN. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eEdinburgh, Bee. 5, 1889.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e(Bindery shelves A4)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54820174430585,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_e17d7048-49a0-454e-94dd-705d7d4d057c.webp?v=1733225771"},{"product_id":"stalin-an-impartial-study-of-the-life-work-of-joseph-stalin-stephen-graham","title":"Stalin, an Impartial Study of the Life \u0026 Work of Joseph Stalin : Stephen Graham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStalin, an Impartial Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Stalin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Stephen Graham\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Hutchinson \u0026amp; Company, 1939.  New and Revised Edition. Scarce paperback with dust jacket, 157 pages plus 1 page of adverts at the rear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA good copy. The dust jacket is in good condition with just some light rubbing to places (see images. The covers and spine under the jacket are in very good condition. All contents present. Pages good throughout but with age-toning to the outer margins as is usual with paperback of this age. No writing or names. Overall good.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Location : Desk shelf, 2nd down)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54820208902521,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_5131c521-3c4f-419a-bda5-041d22ea8973.webp?v=1733227866"},{"product_id":"my-adventures-as-a-german-secret-service-agent-h-von-der-goltz-hardback-1918","title":"My Adventures as a German Secret Service Agent, H. Von Der Goltz: Hardback: 1918","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Adventures as a German Secret Service Agent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Captain Horst Von Der Goltz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Cassell \u0026amp; Company, London, 1918. Appears to be first edition. Hardback cover, 274 pages. 16 black \u0026amp; white plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall acceptable condition - see photos. Wear\/fading\/marks to hardcover, particularly at spine. Foxing to end papers. Binding split in places but holding, with the exception of one colour plate between pages 166 - 167 which has come loose. No names or writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eThe story of a German secret diplomatic agent whose activities on behalf of the German Government began several years before the Great War. His particular areas of operation were Mexico and the USA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eBy the time the author came to write this book he had, he says, been in and out of the Kaiser’s ‘web’ for ten years, having served him faithfully in many capacities and in many places – all over Europe, in Mexico and in the USA. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eDespite the title, which, presumably, he himself gave the book, he maintains he was not a spy nor was he a secret agent; he was a secret diplomatic agent. The principle countries of his concern were Mexico, which the Germans before and during the war were trying to turn against the USA (the Zimmerman telegram was the final straw as far as the USA was concerned), and the USA itself. There was a conspiracy, he reveals, already ongoing during the first month of the war, to violate the neutrality of the USA and a plot to blow up the Welland Canal in Canada which connected Lake Ontario with Lake Erie. The author was the man who planned it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eThere were plans to suborn German-American citizens and one of the key players was Captain Franz von Papen who would be Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and later Hitler’s Vice-Chancellor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eAt one time von der Goltz was a major in the Mexican army, sentenced to death more than once, and in October 1914 he was arrested in the UK and held in prison for fifteen months, expecting to be shot. In March 1916 he was taken to the USA where he had agreed to testify for the Government against one of the German agents and to spill the beans on German activity in the USA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e(Bindery shelves A1)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54820463739257,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_776523c0-b9f6-4c94-a31d-6d94a3f00eb4.webp?v=1733239799"},{"product_id":"alias-macalias-writings-on-songs-folk-literature-h-henderson","title":"Alias MacAlias, Writings on Songs, Folk \u0026 Literature, H. Henderson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlias MacAlias: Writings on Songs, Folk \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Hamish Henderson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Berlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2004. Paperback, 455 pages. Includes black \u0026amp; white photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall very good condition, see photos. No names or writing. Images crisp \u0026amp; clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHamish Henderson was one of the most significant figures in the cultural life of twentieth-century Scotland; he was a man of extraordinary intellectual versatility, a committed Republican and socialist, and, as the pioneer of the great post-war Scottish folk revival, he made an important contribution to Scotland's culture and to the growth of a national consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenderson was continually drawn to the North-East and its folk art heritage; in particular, the tinker-gypsies, whose contribution to folk culture he gave full recognition. He was a scholarly song and folktale collector, a songwriter, a serious political fighter who rejected Margaret Thatcher's offer of an OBE, and a poet whose sequence of war poems Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this collection, extensively expanded by friend and editor Alec Finlay, range from humorous autobiographical reminiscences, wartime memoirs, flytings, chatty reviews and scholarly critiques of songs and tales, to his introductory essay to Gramsci's famous Prison Letters. Subjects include Hugh MacDiarmid, Lorca, the tinker-gypsies, ballads, the burgeoning folk scene and the Clearances. Completing the volume are tributes to individuals such as Jeannie Robertson, Ewan McCall and Roy Williamson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Loc: Shop; Bindery red shelves A4 )\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54824800518521,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_f3fbc972-7841-4c95-a1d2-a32052daf728.webp?v=1733501383"},{"product_id":"the-story-of-napoleon-h-f-b-wheeler-hardback-told-through-the-ages-series","title":"The Story of Napoleon, H.F.B. Wheeler: Hardback: Told Through The Ages Series","description":"\u003cdiv data-marko-key=\"@container s0-14\" class=\"x-item-description-child\" data-testid=\"x-item-description-child\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe History of Napoleon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBy H. F. B. Wheeler.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePublished by George G. Harrap \u0026amp; Co, London, 1931. Hardback cover, 317 pages. Black \u0026amp; white illustrations. From the \"Told Through The Ages\" book series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall fair condition - see photos. Light foxing to head and fore edge, some small stains to front and rear end papers, and around some page edges. Small dents around middle of hardback cover. No names or writing. Images crisp and clear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThere is no more marvellous story in human history than that of Napoleon I., Emperor of the French. His career is one long demonstration of the reality of the proverb, \"Truth is stranger than fiction.\" So fascinating are the details of a life in which so much was attempted and accomplished that many thousands of volumes have been published dealing with its various phases. The demand is by no means exhausted, the supply continuous, as witness the present work. Busy pens are still employed in reviewing the almost superhuman activities of the once obscure Corsican, whose genius for war and conquest upset many a throne, secured for him the Overlordship of Europe, and eventually consigned him to an island prison. Indeed, there seems little likelihood of a lull in interest while the chief source of instruction and amusement of human nature is humanity—in other words itself. Most of us are content to be pupils in the school of experience, willing to sit at the feet of such a master as Napoleon, and learn the lessons he has to teach. The result cannot be other than profitable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eNapoleon has now been dead for a century, but the dazzling brilliancy of his exploits has left a rich afterglow which enables us to get a much less distorted view of him than did our forefathers who were his contemporaries. A subdued light is more useful than one so strong that it almost blinds. With the former we can see details more distinctly, note faults and flaws if there be any, get a clearer idea of an object in every way. Within living memory the name of Napoleon, particularly in Great Britain, was associated with everything that was base and vile, now we know that he was neither the Borgia of his enemies nor the Arch-Patriot of his friends. Nevertheless it is easier for a sightless person to thread a needle than for the most conscientious historian to arrive at an absolutely just summing-up of the case. The \"Memoirs\" of those with whom the Emperor was intimately acquainted are seldom impartial; the majority of the writers are either definitely for or against him. Take those of Baron Meneval as a typical example. The author was one of Napoleon's secretaries, and every page of his work is a defence of his master. In the matter of the execution of the Duc d'Enghien, for instance, he takes up the cudgels on behalf of the man who was responsible for the tragedy at Vincennes, boldly stating that \"One is forced to admit that Napoleon fulfilled a painful duty, as Head of the Government, and that instead of charging him with a crime, one should rather pity him for having been placed in the necessity of accepting all the odium of an act, the deplorable consequences of which, in the future, his foresight only too clearly pointed out to him.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFar from Napoleon being concerned as to probable political consequences, he asserted it would teach the Bourbons a lesson. On the other hand, the \"Memoirs\" of Barras, a prominent figure in the French Revolution, might have been of considerable service to us in gathering information as to Bonaparte's early career, had it not been proved beyond question that much he tells us is sheer barefaced untruth, and he everywhere seeks to belittle the accomplishments of the young soldier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\"Bonaparte, on the 13th of Vendemiaire,\" he says, \"performed no functions but those of an aide-de-camp of mine. I was on horseback, he was on foot; he could not follow my movements. The only order he received from me was to go to the Pont Royal, and to report to me what was taking place. He did not give, and had not to give, a single order, and was seen at only one point of the attack, at the Carrousel. He did not stir from thence; Brune was in command.\" The statements of Thiebault, Marmont, and many others prove beyond question that Napoleon, and he alone, saved the day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eBooks which unduly eulogise or condemn should be read therefore with a certain amount of reserve. Of partisans such as Jung there are many, and they doubtless fulfil a useful purpose provided always that a representative of the other side is given a similar hearing. Lanfrey, whose vitriolic volumes may be perused in English, represents a school of thought which has no place in an age which refuses to listen or to read only of the evil in a man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eSpecial attention has been paid in the present work to the genesis of Napoleon's career, because it is in what is known as the formative period that we plant the seeds of future success. To-day and to-morrow are inextricably interblended, although we so often fail to appreciate what is assuredly one of the most vital facts of life. Periods of time are no more real boundaries than periods of history, which are merely make-believe divisions for purposes of clearness and reference. Of course, one reign may be more enlightened than another, one Statesman may confer more benefits on his country than his predecessor, but there is always a previous foundation on which to build. Napoleon did not create his vast Empire from nothing. A mosaic-worker who is given a pile of vari-coloured marble chips with which to glorify a cathedral pavement does not disdain the fragments because they are in confusion and appear of little worth. With infinite patience and skill he sorts them into their various grades, then combines them again, but giving each its proper order in the scheme. Presently from apparent chaos he produces a work of beauty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eNapoleon came on the scene when the giant upheaval known as the French Revolution had thrown the whole nation out of gear. He brought the scattered masses together, recreated Government and the army, made laws, re-established religion—in a word, led the people back from anarchy and savagery to civilisation and order. Napoleon's true place in history is as an organiser. Conqueror he undoubtedly was, and his overgrown ambition in this direction was the cause of his downfall. Had he chosen to rule France solely all would have been well; neighbouring nations could not have raised legitimate objections. As it was they owe a debt of gratitude to him. Although no part of his scheme to awaken dormant ideals of nationality and of liberty, he unwittingly did so in the archaic Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Spain, and Tyrol, to mention the more important. A century ago, Europe hated the Man of Destiny, and not without cause; to-day, she has every reason, if not to revere his memory, to be thankful for having felt the iron grip of Napoleon. Surgical operations are extremely painful whether individual or national. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eNapoleon cannot be called a \"good\" man in the usually accepted sense of so latitudinarian a word. He was the instigator of more than one political crime, yet he had a heart that could beat for the afflicted; he would say the most unkind and cruel things of Sir Hudson Lowe, to whose care he was committed at St Helena, and play at bears with little Betsy Balcombe during her stay in the same island. So complex a personality must necessarily defy to a great extent the set-square and compasses both of panegyrist and detractor. Guided by no standard code of morality, he created his own, that of expediency. \"No name,\" says Lord Rosebery, \"represents so completely and conspicuously dominion, splendour and catastrophe. He raised himself by the use, and ruined himself by the abuse, of superhuman faculties. He was wrecked by the extravagance of his own genius. No less powers than those which had effected his rise could have achieved his fall.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eIn a book limited to a certain number of pages many phases of a crowded life such as Napoleon's must necessarily receive somewhat scant treatment It has been found impossible to treat military events in full, but the general outlines of the various campaigns have been given, and the narratives of first-hand authorities quoted whenever practicable. For general reading a description of a battle by a man who was present is always to be preferred to the minute details of the most painstaking student.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eAs regards authorities, special reference must be made to Volume IX. of the monumental \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eCambridge Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e, Dr J. Holland Rose's just and impartial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eLife of Napoleon I.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e, Sir John Seeley's somewhat disparaging \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eShort History of Napoleon the First\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e, Mr F. Loraine Petre's masterly studies of the Polish, Prussian, and Austrian campaigns, Sir Archibald Alison's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eHistory of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e, which has by no means lost its usefulness since more modern research has added to our knowledge of the epoch, Mr Oscar Browning's interesting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eBoyhood and Youth of Napoleon, 1769-1793\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e, and Mr Hereford B. George's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003eNapoleon's Invasion of Russia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eA host of other volumes dealing with the same inexhaustible subject which line the shelves of my crowded library have also been utilised, I trust, to good purpose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eWhen the late Admiral Eden was a senior midshipman he was told by his Admiral that he was to accompany him on a visit to the fallen Emperor at St Helena. \"We waited for Napoleon in an outer room,\" he afterwards told a friend, \"and you must imagine how eagerly I expected his entrance. The door was thrown open at last, and in he came. He was short and fat, and nothing very attractive but for his eye! My word, sir, I had never seen anything like it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\"After speaking to the Admiral he turned to me, and then I understood for the first time in my life what was the meaning of the phrase 'A born ruler of men.' I had been taught to hate the French as I hated the devil; but when Napoleon looked at me there was such power and majesty in his look that if he had bade me lie down that he might walk over me, I would have done it at once, Englishman although I was. The look on Napoleon's face was the revelation of the man and the explanation of his power. He was born to command.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003eAnd there you have part of the secret of Napoleon's career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 2em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e(Bindery A2)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54830777008505,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/a_3f799e8a-832a-4ab2-9add-ef7c37e5a0e5.jpg?v=1733925362"},{"product_id":"1887-rev-john-brown-haddington-a-family-record-self-interpretating-bible","title":"1887 Rev. John Brown, Haddington : A Family Record (Self-Interpretating Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCentenary Memorial of the Rev. John Brown, Haddington : A Family Record\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompiled by John Croumbie Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh, 1887. First Edition. 8vo, hardback, wine cloth binding with gilt titles, 223 pages, with a frontispiece of Rev. John Brown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA good clean first edition in a good binding. no writing or names to the book and pages clean throughout. Overall very good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Brown of Haddington\u003c\/b\u003e (1722 – 19 June 1787) was a Scottish minister and author. He was born at Carpow, in Perthshire. He was almost entirely self-educated, having acquired a knowledge of ancient languages while employed as a shepherd. By his own intense application to study, before he was twenty years of age, he had obtained an intimate knowledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, with the last of which he was critically conversant. He was also acquainted with the French, Italian, German, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and Ethiopic. His early career was varied, and he was in succession a travelling merchant, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master. He was, from 1750 till his death, minister of the Burgher branch of the Secession Church in Haddington. From 1768 he was professor of divinity for his denomination, and was mainly responsible for the training of its ministers. He gained a just reputation for learning and piety. The best of his many works are his Self-Interpreting Bible and Dictionary of the Bible, works that were long very popular. The former was translated into Welsh. 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Frontispiece portrait and two other engraved plates (The Reverend John Lloyd Rector of Caerwis and Fountains Abbey).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very good copy. The binding is good with cracking to the leather at the front hinge but board securely attached if a little shaken. Endpapers good. Bookplate to inside front board. All contents present and pages good throughout. Tad of light spotting to the last two pages. Overall a good copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Pennant\u003c\/b\u003e (27 June 1726 – 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a naturalist he had a great curiosity, observing the geography, geology, plants, animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish around him and recording what he saw and heard about. 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She gained lasting popularity in her youth as a\n writer of verse for children. In the years up to her marriage, she \nbecame an astringent literary critic. However, she is best remembered as\n the elder sister and collaborator of Jane Taylor. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Taylor \nsisters were part of an extensive literary family, daughters of the \nengraver Isaac Taylor of Ongar and the writer Ann Taylor. Ann was born \nin Islington and lived with her family at first in London and later in \nLavenham, Suffolk, in Colchester, and briefly in Ongar. The sisters' \nfather, Isaac Taylor, and her grandfather were both engravers. Her \nfather later became an educational pioneer and Independent minister, \nwriting a number of instructional books for the young. 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