Foster John Edited Ryland (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. London: Jackson and Walford, 1846. First edition, 1846. Note: beautiful bindings but front covers detached. A life of Foster chiefly comprised of his letters, together with a biographical overview. Bound in full polished calf, with raised spine bands, decorated compartments, dual spine labels in red and black, yellow tinted edges, frontis portrait in volume I, (vii, 468 + 590, 2 p. errata). Armorial bookplates of Henry Collins in each volume. As noted, both front covers detached, otherwise the volumes have only light shelfwear, rear joint of volume I starting to separate a bit, a light scratch to the lower spine label of volume II, but internally fresh and clean, with light foxing to frontis only. Foster was a noted theologian of his time whose primary dissent with church doctrine involved "Duration of Future Punishment", which is treated at length in some of the letters included in the work. . First Edition. Full-Leather. Fair. 8vo (8.75" x 5.5" or 22 cm x 14 cm).

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardback. Ex-College library with ex-college library markings.Volume 2 only Foxing to end inside covers. Wear to top edge of spine and corners of cloth. Green cloth with gilt lettering. A very good copy for its age. Contents of Vo. II.: Coleridge. Highland Superstitions. Grecian Architecture. Richard Chamberland. George Whitfield. Junius. Henry Grattan. Zollikofer's Sermons. Irish Society. Horne Tooke. On Biography. Public Worship of Nonconformists. The Relation of Man to Nature. Wilberforce on Christian Missions. Robert Hall on the East India Charter. Chateaubriand's Christian Martyrs. Life of Michel De L'Hopital. Mungo Park. Hobhouse's Albania. Curran. Britton's Cathedral Antiquities. Jeremy Taylor. Astronomy and the Christian Revelation. Andrew Fuller. Benjami9n Franklin. John Fawcett, D.D. John Ryland, D.D. Recollections of Coleridge. Modern Egypt. Chatterton. Daniell's Oriental Scenery. 536 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).