The Party-Coloured Mind: Prose Relating to the Conflict of Church and State in Seventeenth Century Scotland Tapa dura - 1982

Edinburgh: Reid, David . Very Good/Very Good. 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0707303044 Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 221 pages clean and tight. The Party-Coloured Mind is a prose anthology organized about the central issue of Scottish seventeenth-century history, the conflict between Church and State, since, however indirectly, that is what Scots wrote most interestingly about. Such writing is usually rather inaccessible to the general reader, first because it requires some historical background. To supply that, the pieces have been arranged chronologically, prefaced with a historical outline in headnote form, and some of the pieces themselves are racy memoirs that bring events or personalities to life. But the central issue is itself culturally and intellectually inaccessible. Why did Scotsmen care so much about the politics of Church and State? Here, the pieces offer some explanations in terms of divine or human… Leer más

GB: Scottish Academic Press, 1982. Black cloth, gitl. Book is in excellent condition BUT end papers and pastedowns faintly browned / spotted and small chip to cloth bottom edge of back cover. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG+ DW.

Scottish Academic Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982. A good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. A selection of prose writings from the seventeenth century relating to the conflict between the Church and State in Scotland at that time. 221pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1982; 0 7073 0304 4. 1st edition. Hardback. The Association for Scottish Literary Studies Vol. No.11. Nr fine/ Dj Nr fine. 221pp. Black covers with gilt title on spine .

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. AS NEW IN DJ.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.