Watts I Saac (7 results)

Hardcover (Full Leather). Condition: Fair Condition. No Dust Jacket. Fifth Edition. (Vol. 2 of 2) Front cover gone, leather quite scuffed, edges worn. Title page soiled, paper age toned & a little foxing. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 514 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Religion & Theology; 18th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…

Leather. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket as issued. 5th or later Edition. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 32mo., viii, 302, (24), (6)pp. Last 6 pages are musical score. Bound in full calf. The leather is cracked on its surface, with a loss at the crown of spine, and the rear upper tip. Front and rear paste downs partially torn away. Title page torn horizontally, as are occasional pages throughout. A binding copy of this scarce 18th century Hymnal. ****A scarce 1777 edition. OCLC locates only the British Library copy.****. …

31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. Original publisher's green pictorial wrappers. A clean and crisp copy. A remarkably crisp copy of an early Victorian, Derby-printed edition of a popular collection of catechisms, suited to each stage of childhood, compiled by Independent minister and 'Father of English Hymnody' Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Size: 16mo.…

Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. 6,5 x 10,5 cm. Erste Auflage, 27 S. Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Sprache: Englisch, Einband lose, leichte Lagerungs-/Gebrauchsspuren.

30pp, [2]. First and terminal leaves pastedowns, wrappers included in pagination. With 10 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. Rubbed and lightly dust-soiled, title in manuscript to head of upper wrapper. A Glasgow printed edition, in original state, of an immensely popular selection of devotional and moral songs for children, first published in 1715, by eminent theologian and 'Father of English Hymnody' Isaac Watts (1674- 1748). Roscoe & Brimmell 38. Size: 32mo.…

x, 70pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements.Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Extremities worn, marked, and bumped, surface loss to spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP: 'William Steevens / Wycombe / Bucks / 1800 / 9th mo: 22nd', small holes to text of leaves A3 and F5 (without loss of sense). An immensely popular selection of devotional and moral songs for children, first published in 1715, by eminent theologian and 'Father of English Hymnody' Isaac Watts (1674-1748). ESTC records a single copy of this edition in the British Isles (BL), and one further in North America (Emory). ESTC T85275. Size: 12mo.…

London, Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf, expertly rebacked in old style w. five raised bands on back and gilt leather title-label. Some scratches to boeards and some bumbing to corners. (2), VI, (8, -table of contents + books published by the same author), 534 (2, -advertisements, i.e. errata) pp. First edition of Watt's standard text book of philosophical logic, which was used as the basic introduction to this field for more than 100 years at Oxford University, also occupying the place as the standard text on logic at Cambridge, Harvard and Yale throughout the 18th century and well into the 19th. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is considered the father of English hymnody and is considered one of the most important hymn-writerS ever in Great Britain. But Watts was not only a hymn-writer, he was also a renowned logician and theologian, and today he is primarily famous within these fields as the author of his text book in logic, "Logick." from 1725, which became hugely popular and served as a standard introduction to the field for more than 100 years. The work went through twenty editions, bearing witness to its great popularity.The work is arranged systematically and divided into four general parts: 1. Of Perceptions and Ideas, II. Of Judgment and Proposition, III. Of Reason and Syllogism, IV. Of Method. The work not merely served as a basic text book for beginners of logic, though, it also contains new ideas and new approaches to old problems. The influence of Watts' contemporary John Locke is especially noticeable with many references to his "Essay on Humane Understanding". But a thing that distinguishes Watts' Logic from others of the time, and perhaps the reason why it became so hugely popular, is his constant focus on the practicability of logic instead of the merely speculative approach to it, which again made his logic useful in connection with general problems of philosophy and science. Unusual for his time, Watts here distinguishes between the practical and the speculative part of logic and treats of both parts, anticipating later logicians such as Peirce. C.S. Peirce also described Watts' "Logick" as being "far superior to the treatises now used in colleges, being the production of a man distinguished for good sense" (see The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol.II, 1933). …