Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan - Scottish History

Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan - Scottish HistoryVirtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment By Stewart Cruden Published by Edinburgh University Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. 276 pages. CONDITION A very good clean first edition. No writing or names. This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable

Both titles by Rev

Ward and Evelyn Dare

All edges gilt

gilt to top edge

The original leather binding is in good condition with a couple of very small dents to rear board

who is probably best known as the author of Under the Upas Tree and The Brownie of Weirdlaw

" In particular he suggest that the twelve Caesars are actually representations of the "welve signs of the Zodiac" - a theory he explores in full in this work

Published by Orange Judd Company

some light wearing at the head and tail of the spine & no marking or staining - Dust-jacket is in poor condition with wearing at the corners of both flaps

interested in literature and philosophy and alert to current events

Inside front board has a bookplate pasted to it and there is a little surface loss to the endpaper

or The History and Antiquities of the Abbeys of Jedburgh