William tooke editor (3 risultati)
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Rhodes University, 1972
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth with gilt publishers mark on the cover. Gilt text on the spine. Born in Scotland of English parents, Shaw was ordained as a Methodist chaplain to the Sephton party, one of the many organized groups that made up the 1820 English settler m…ovement in the eastern Cape Colony of what is now South Africa. He was appointed to the white settlers but also to further mission among the indigenous peoples. He spent his first three years building up a strong Methodist church in the new settler community, which by 1824 counted twelve congregations. A strong settler church, he insisted, was the essential base for a mission to the African peoples. It was not until 1824 that work began among the neighboring Xhosa-speaking population, though Methodist success was not primarily among the Xhosa but among the Mfengu refugees driven from their lands by the Zulu. This linking of the settler and mission churches set a course that resulted in twentieth-century Methodism in South Africa being one church. However, in Shaw?s lifetime it produced great tension, since too often funds from England were swallowed up in keeping the settler base strong. Also, in the terrible period of bloody conflict with the Xhosa between 1834 and 1852, Shaw appeared as a spokesman of the settlers. However, it was also true that he fought for the African education against settler opinion and always criticized gross injustice. Having retired to England in 1856, he was still concerned for South Africa and in 1860 proposed that an autonomous South African Methodist Conference be established, but the Methodist authorities in Britain refused approval. He retired from the active ministry in 1869. 220pp.CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Full refund if not satisfied.
Editore: Printed for T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, B. Law, T. Field, T. Durham, J. Robson, R. Goadby, and E. Baker, 1761
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Da: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Regno UnitoPrior Books Ltd
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. An eleven volume set complete with a 12th supplementary volume. All 12 volumes uniformly bound in dark red cloth covered hardback bindings, lettered in gilt at the spines. An ex-lib set but showing minimal such markings. Books are firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no s…cuffs. Contents are tight and clean, just evenly age-toned. Thus a very good set indeed: very well rebound in relatively modern and presentable matching hardback bindings.
Altre immaginiA New and General Biographical Dictionary; containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and writings of the Most Eminent Persons in every Nation
TOOKE, William (editor, assisted by William Beloe and Robert Nares)
Editore: G.G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, and others, London, 1798
Da: Hordern House Rare Books, Potts Point, NSW, AustraliaHordern House Rare Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloFifteen volumes, octavo, a lovely set in a full calf binding of the period, red spine label; front board of each volume blind stamped with family crest. A new and enlarged edition of the great biographical dictionary, prepared under the scrutiny of English clergyman William Tooke (1744-1820). The breadth and scope of the work is… impressive, in some degree reflecting the prodigious intellect and energy of its editor. Tooke was a capable translator of German, French and Russian, and as a close friend of the publisher John Nichols was responsible for numerous English editions. Appointed chaplain of the Russia Company at St. Petersburg in 1771, Tooke initiated a long-term correspondence with Nichols and became a primary informant on Russian affairs for the London gentry of the period. Much of the value of the present work lies in its provision of good information outside the standard scope of British biographical sources, and it provides evidence of what late?18th?century British compilers considered the canon of "eminent persons," including many continental and Russian figures under?represented elsewhere, making it a useful source on reception and reputation as well as on facts. . Provenance: J.N. Webb (name inscribed on endpaper of each volume; family armorial crest blind-stamped on bindings).
