Author: William Garden Blaikie
Title: Thomas Chalmers
Description: Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce work from the 'Famous Scots Series', discussing influential nineteenth-century Free Church of Scotland minister Thomas Chalmers. The very scarce first edition of Scottish minister, writer, biographer, and temperance reformer William Garden Blaikie's biographical study of Thomas Chalmers, a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. Chalmers has been called 'Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman&apos.A very scarce volume of Edinburgh publishers Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier's 'Famous Scots Series', of which forty-two works were published between 1896 and 1905. The works were distinctive for their uniform bright red cloth covers, and were viewed as having a high scholarly value when it came to accurate insight into their subjects. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail. Boards bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: free church of scotland Church of Scotland Famous scots series Church of Scotland None


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