Bruce Rev William (8 results)

Various (illustrator). The North American Review Vol. 222 No. 1 September - October - November 1925.

First edition. 458+(4) pages. Brown pebbled cloth with bright gilt lettering on the spine, beveled edges, chocolate end papers. Good condition, snag at top of the spine, slight weakness to front inner hinge.

Condition: 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. Fourth edition published for the Missionary and Tract Society of the New Church. Light wear to brown cloth boards, with tanned page edges and a previous owner's plate to the opening. A decent, clean copy with a firm binding.

First Edition. First edition in blue cloth with black titles and decoration.VG.

Early collection of the shepherd poet's work, with a new biographical introduction. Original embossed boards. Name to fep otherwise a decent copy with frontispiece of Loch Leven castle.

Booklet. Condition: Very good. Our Sunday visitor press. 16 p. 20 cm. Stapled booklet. Section titles: Realizing the Negro's Aspirations; A Study of the Southland - Where the Negroes Predominate; Catholic Church Best for the Negro (by Bruce); What the Church is Doing for the Colored Race (by Kremer); Catholic Negro Work; Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People; Negro Saints and Blessed of the Catholic Church; Zealous and Successful African Negro Priests; Progress of American Negroes in Economic and Other Lines; Unions and the Negroes; Colored Converts; etc. Poems on last page: The Black Madonna; Negro National Hymn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lochleven, and Other Poems (also known as 'Life and Poems' from the half title page), Michael Bruce, Rev. William Mackenzie. Poetry by the Scottish poet and hymnist, Michael Bruce (1746-1767). Published by M. Paterson, Edinburgh, 1837 first edition. Printed by Neill and Co. An uncommon publication. A very good hardback with brown leather spine and corners. With raised bands and gilt titles. Marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Binding from 20th Century, but not recent. Soundly bound. Covers with light bumping and wear to extremities. Bookplate of William Boyd to first pastedown. A portrait with facsimile signature of the Rev. William Mackenzie has been pasted to a blank endpaper facing half title. Text pages are very good overall with a few minor faults. Half title and frontispiece page frayed to vertical edge. Infrequent light spotting. Text in English. xiii + 320pp . Approximately 171mm high x 112mm wide x 22mm deep. Weight approximately 347g (unpacked). More photos on request.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Engraver Matthew Barriff, Theobalds Road, London (illustrator). First Edition. Ex-Library. Hard cover, Folio (10 ½" x 14 ¾") in three-quarter red leather gilt with marbled paper covered boards, the title in gilt upon red leather label centered to top board, First Edition. Collation: [2] 3, [1] [10] leaves, complete. Condition: Fair. Ex-Library, with engraved donation sticker, shelving notation to front pastedown, several perforated blind library stamps. Spine is repaired externally with green library binding. Internally, spine is cracked but pages are holding. Wear to covers, loss to corners. Minor foxing throughout. Features decorative engraved title page, and other charts which are engraved by Mattw. Barriff, London. *** Contains 10 timeline charts, showing religious events ("2349 BC - Noah commanded to enter the Ark", "2247 BC - Tower of Babel built on the plain of Syria", 1921 BC - "Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed"), lifespans of Mathematicians Physicists and Artists (Pythagorus, Sophocles, Sappho, Thales) and wars (Peloponnesian War, Rome Burnt by the Gauls). ** The Author, Englishman JOHN BRUCE (1805-1892), founded the well-considered Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Percy Street Academy (also known as Bruce's Academy), located in the family home from 1806 to 1881. It was conceived as a merchant school for educating the local youth for futures in trade and business. Bruce was a largely self-educated man from humble roots, making his achievements in the educational field all the more admirable. His other title was an Introduction to Geography and Astronomy, which went to multiple editions. The school was later led by his son Rev. Dr. John Collingwood Bruce. (See Sir Gainsford Bruce's biography of his father the Rev. John Collingwood Bruce, (W. Blackwood, Edinburgh,1905) for more details on the paterfamilias.) **The Engraver, MATTHEW BARRIFF of London, is mentioned in contemporary legal periodicals as having fallen out of partnership with at least two individuals in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The London Gazette of 20th Dec., 1819 ,Vol. 2, tells us of a dissolved partnership with fellow engraver William Barrett "by mutual consent," at their premises at No. 67 Dean Street, So-ho Square. Page [2135]. Later, in 1825, he again dissolved a business partnership with Philip Jones, noted in The Law Advertiser, Vol. 3, No. 27, for Tuesday July 7, 1825. By the time of the publication of this Atlas, in 1828, he had relocated to Theobald's Road, London.**Library donor, the Rev. WILLIAM OXNARD MOSELEY (1843-1847), of Newburyport Massachusetts, home of this bookseller, was once pastor of Norwood First Parish Church. His family's estate Maudslay, was once a destination for a number of nineteenth-century Boston-area literary figures, and currently a public park upon the picturesque, rhododendron-laden shores of the Merrimack River. ( His son, William Jr. was, apparently, the first American mountaineer to die upon the Matterhorn in a tragic accident in 1879, according to the American Alpine Club.) OCLC 222784418. World cat shows only five copies of this volume internationally. Rare. Book.