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Hamilton, James; The Works of the Late Rev. J. Hamilton, D.D.
Hamilton: #02010214
London: J. Nisbet & Co. / Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer to the Queen and the University. 1869-1873. Includes William Arnot’s ‘Life of James Hamilton, 2nd ed. 1870, uniformly bound w/ set). Volumes 1-3 are dated 1869 on title (first ed.) Vol. 5: 1871; Vols. 4 & 6: 1873. Overall good condition. Sunning/soiling to spines, with wear to head and heal of spines, new endpages to vols. 1,2,6. Volume 1: creases mainly between pps. 399-413, spotting and some discoloration to covers, a few stains and slight staining in the margins, but pages are clean w/ minor yellowing. 523 pps. Volume 2: 508 pp. Some spotting to covers; minor yellowing, pages clean with one or two instances of pencil. Volume 3: 516 pp. offsetting on front pastedown, pages clean, covers lightly soiled. Volume 4: 524 pp., very minor foxing through title and preface with occasional light spotting; Volume 5: 551 pp. Hinges weak but secure, minor spotting, else clean; Volume 6: 532 pp. creasing and soiling to pp. 182-87 not affecting text, light foxing, the last 100 pp. are uncut. Life of Hamilton: Cloth missing from top corner of board and head of spine, rip on front hinge, crease across portrait of Hamilton, light foxing, else clean. Hinges a tad weak but secure. 600 pps. w/ ads. Scarce.
Contents include: Life in Earnest; The Mount of Olives; The Lake of Galilee; The Happy Home; Light to the Path; Emblems from Eden; The Prodigal Son; Tracts; The Royal Preacher (commentary on Ecclesiasites recommended by Spurgeon); Lessons from the Great Biography; Lectures and Addresses; Erasmus; Moses, the Man of God; Philosophy and Christianity; The Ethics of the Gospel; Sermons and Addresses.
Hamilton (1816-1867) Assistant minister at St. George’s Edinburgh and in Abernyte (1841); appointed as the minister of the National Scottish Church, Regent Square London (1841).
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