Description
The first edition of The Church in the Highlands; or, The Progress of Evangelical Religion in Gaelic Scotland, 563-1843 by Reverend John MacKay. With the scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, vi, 280pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Published by Hodder and Stoughton in London and New York in 1914, issued as part of The Chalmers Lectures series. Top edge dyed blue. Bookplate on front pastedown.
In the publisher’s dust jacket, soiling to the spine, solid hinges. Dust jacket not previously recorded. No known examples have appeared on the public market.
MacKay’s work traces the history of evangelical religion in Gaelic Scotland from the arrival of the Columban-Celtic Church in the sixth century through the medieval church, the Scottish Reformation, the Covenanter period, eighteenth-century decline, and the evangelical awakening in the Highlands and Islands through 1843.
