Solid Joys and Lasting Treasure: Historical Companion to Many Favourite Hymns Tapa dura - 1985

Ross Anderson , 1985. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:0863600220

Ross Anderson, 1985. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:0863600220

Hardback. Very Good.

Bolton: Ross Anderson Publications, 1985. . [xv] + 281 pages. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Ross Anderson, 1985. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Hardback with D/J in good condition. ISBN 0863600220 0-86360-022-0

Bolton: Ross Anderson, 1985. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some light foxing to top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiii + 281 pages. 43 illustrations. This book is not about hymns or their tunes - it sketches the lives of the writers of many of the best-loved hymns - a very mixed bag, stretching in a ribbon of history from the first Christians, through the Classical and Dark and Middle Ages, to modern times. They include a tinker, a pedant, an architect, a fern collector and fisherman, a reformed slave-trader, an ambassador, besides novelists, gaolbirds, monks, poets, philosophers, several Saints and many sinners. Some like Charles Wesley and the blind American Fanny Crosby, wrote literally thousands of hymns. Other characters include the Bishop who was appointed for refusing his lodgings to Nell Gwynn; the only Poet Laureate to die hiding from his creditors in the Royal Mint; An Independant minister who accidentally strangled a highwayman; an eccentric squarson… Leer más

Bolton: Ross Anderson, 1985. NrF/VG+. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on title-page without dedication or inscription. Profusely illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. A well-researched and authoritative history and study of hymns. It is not about hymns or their tunes. The book sketches the lives of the writers of many of the best-loved hymns - a very mixed bag, stretching in a ribbon of history from the first Christians, through the Classical and Dark and Middle Ages, to modern times. With Bibliography, Index of Hymns and General Index. D/w has sunning to spine (as usual); else a near fine copy, in a very good plus d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

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