Search Results: SCOTLAND from Chilton Books

London: James Nisbet & Co.Ltd, 1911.. Pp.16/221/1(ad), colour frontispiece, small exposed patch of binding to front inner hinge. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, publisher's label (File Copy) to rear board. VG.

Edinburgh: William J. Hay, nd. (c.1900).. Contents; 1.Braids Scots; 2.The Epic of Freedom; 3.The Shrine of Douglas; 4.The Three Tales of Lindoren; 5.The Pagan Faith of Scotland; 6."Bonnie Jeanie Cameron"; 7.The Gael Again; 8.Some Historic Apparitions; 9.Village Naturals; 10.The Tale of a Quiet Strath; 11.A Parish Chronicle of the Seventeenth Century; 12.A Scottish Parish in the Eighteenth Century. Pp.189, slight toning to pages, owner's name to inside front board, browning to endpapers. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine. G+.

London: Macmillan & Co.Ltd, 1959.. 1st edition. "Sets out to explain the doctrine and tradition of the 'Reformed' Churches, i.e. those Protestant bodies deriving from Calvin, especially as regards the nature of the Church and the Ministry, and the Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist." Pp.x/302, slight toning to endpapers. Red cloth, dustwrapper dusty with edge wear. VG/Good.

Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, nd. (c.1884).. Originally written for the Children's Magazine of the United Presbyterian Church, the story is written in "Scotch made easy". 17.5cms x 12cms. Pp.128, black & white frontispiece with occasional further illustrations in the text and decorated head and tail pieces to chapters. Blue floral decorated cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slight edge wear. G+.

West Lothian District Council, 1982.. A facsimile printing of the 3rd edition of Waldie's original bestseller. Pp.119, b/w frontis. +12 further b/w illustrations. Pbk. VG.

Edinburgh: Board of Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1973.. 3rd.imp. "Gives a short account of the rising of 1715 and the situation that made it not only possible but almost inevitable." Pp. 31, 4 b/w illustrations. P/b. illustrated cover. VG.

London: Oxford University Press, 1946.. 1st ed. In addition to the title essay, contains studies on various subjects, personalities, and controversies concerned with Scottish religious history. Pp. 13/137. Inscrip. to fep. Rough edges to bottom of pages. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w with slight chipping. G+/G.

Edinburgh: Lutterworth Press, 1969.. 1st ed. "Writing with shrewd and penetrating insight he looks at Scotland as a land where people and church are in unique alliance, and where what is said and done nationally has its reflection in the Kirk." Pp. 117. P/b. G+.

Lomond Books. 1998.. Charts the long, painful, sometimes tragic, often inspiring, process that has formed the Scottish people of today". Pp 384. Some b/w illustrations. P/b. 25 cms x 17.5 cms. Illustrated cover. VG.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood,1912.. Knox Club Publication ,No.32. Pp.137,portrait frontis., inscription from author to fep, endpapers toned, occasional spotting. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine,edges slightly rubbed. G.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1951.. 1st ed. "A vivid picture of the Scots people to-day painted against the background of their past". Pp 246, toning to pages. P/b, slight scuffing to top and lower edge of spine. G+.

New York: Beekman House, 1982.. Divided into five parts: 1.Poetry; 2.Folklore, and Rhymes and Tales; 3.Facts; 4. Fragments; 5. A Few Prose Extracts and Some Letters. Pp.14/368, 3 maps, 11 clan shields. Red boards, d/w. VG/VG.

The Scottish Churches' Council. nd.. Pp 56. P/b. Slight creasing to top of front cover. G+.

London: Hodder and Stoughton,1887.. Pp.viii/184/20(ads), inscribed "To Nina Cameron with the best wishes of her Grandpapa the Author. April 28th 1888" to front free endpaper, armorial bookplate Convent of the Immaculate Conception OSF Bocking Essex to inside front board. Blue illustrated cloth, gilt title to front and spine, colour faded to spine and edges of boards. Good. "Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. The name derived from Covenant, a biblical term for a bond or agreement with God. The origins of the movement lay in disputes with James VI & I, and his son Charles I of England over church structure and doctrine. In 1638, thousands of Scots signed the National Covenant, pledging to resist changes imposed by Charles on the kirk; following victory in the 1639 and 1640 Bishops' Wars, the Covenanters took control of Scotland...After the 1660… Read More

St. Ives: James Pike. 1975.. 1st ed. "Part of the magic of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland is that everyone sees them a little differently and each visitor finds his own particular favourite spot". Pp 32, 8 b/w illustrations, 1 sketch map. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+.

London: Seeley, Service & Co Limited, 1926.. A Description of the Town, the Castle, the Classic Buildings, Historic Places, Environs & Other Points of Interest. 15cms x 11cms. Pp.157, black & white photo frontispiece + 31 furthe full page plates and 58 line drawing illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt illustration to front board, spine dulled. G+.

Edinburgh:John Waugh, 1835.. 3rd edition, with the original Appendix; and notes by Alexander Hill, D.D. Pp.xii/153/14(publisher's catalogue), toning to endpapers. Dark green pebbled cloth, original paper label to spine has losses, wear to spine edges and boards rubbed. Good.