1896 Thomas Chalmers

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

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'.

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.