Religious Manuscripts

First published in 1775, John Howie's The Scots Worthies became one of the best-known collections of biographies from Scotland's Presbyt...

A bound annual volume of The Parish Magazine, the pioneering Church of England periodical established in 1859 by the Rev. J. Erskine Clarke. Its in...

Sacred History in the Form of Letters was written as an engaging introduction to Biblical history for the pupils of the pioneering Edinburgh Sessio...

Published in 1848, John Boag's A Popular and Complete English Dictionary was among the earliest substantial dictionaries issued by William Collins ...

First published in Germany as one of the nineteenth century's most influential architectural pattern books, The Gothic Model-Book was intended as a...

Between about 1877 and 1912, David Bryce & Son of Glasgow became one of the world's foremost publishers of miniature books, issuing more than f...

The Sermon on the Mount is a finest production by the Limited Editions Club, presenting the text from the Gospel of Matthew alongside an introducti...

This is a deluxe 1923 edition of The Imitation of Christ, the enduring Christian devotional attributed to Thomas à Kempis, one of the most widely r...

Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture by William Eden Nesfield is an impressive folio study of twelfth and thirteenth century architecture in France ...

A notable work of nineteenth-century moral philosophy by the American educator, theologian, and President of Yale College, Noah Porter, The...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

Palestine Models; Make Your Own with Matchboxes is an unusual and evocative piece of mid-twentieth century children's educational ephemera, produc...

The Story of Mahajanaka is a work authored by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, presenting his own retelling of one of the Jātaka tales concerni...

The life and travels of Isabella Bird (1831-1904) are among the most remarkable of the nineteenth century, and this biography by Anna M. Stoddart o...

The Hermits by Charles Kingsley is a series of engaging historical and biographical sketches exploring the lives of early Christian ascetic...

The Grey Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse by Michael Fairless is a reflective and quietly evocative work blending prose and ...

The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's gathers a series of literary and historical essays by the Scottish scholar David Masson...

A major scholarly work by Sir James George Frazer, expanding the comparative method that made The Golden Bough famous and applying it to th...

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson is an early and influential example of the epistolary novel, written in the form of letter...

THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW:Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligently ...

A substantial Puritan theological exposition of Psalm 110 by Edward Reynolds (1599-1676), one of the principal Christological psalms of Reformed di...

This Nonesuch Press edition brings together two of John Bunyan's most enduring works, The Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, ...

Lao Buddha: The Image and Its History by Somkiart Lopetcharat Thai (ไทย) พระพุทธรูปลาว: ภาพและประวัติโดย สมเกียรติ โลเปชารัตน์(Phra Phuttha Rup Lao...

A substantial and scholarly late-Victorian study of Scottish ecclesiastical silver. Rev. Thomas Burns’s Old Scottish Communion Plate (1892) remains...