A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament … (1785)
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A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament … (1785)
by Alexander Cruden
Full Title: A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament: or a Dictionary and Alphabetical Index to the Bible : Very Useful to All Christians who Seriously Read and Study the Inspired Writings : In Two Parts … To Which is Added, A Concordance to the Books called Apocrypha. The Whole digested in any easy and regular Method; which, together with the various Significations and other Improvements now added, renders it more useful than any Book of the Kind hitherto published.
11 x 8 ¾. In English. Printed for J. Buckland, et al, London, 1785. Fourth Edition. Complete. A solid attractive massive and respected work by a man whose biblical labors have justly made his name among English-speaking people. This very large, very thick and very heavy book is complete and solidly bound with the original leather covers, recently re-backed. Some scuffing and dark spots. 1000+ pages of text with an illustrated frontispiece plate. Uneven browning to endpapers, with some spotting to text. Some edge tears to title pages, frontispiece, and endpapers; otherwise a clean text block with no ownership markings Published more than 230 years ago, this very large book is scarce, highly sought-after, and in very good overall condition.
Working as a proof corrector and bookseller, Alexander Cruden (1699–1770) completed work on his Concordance in only four years, 1733 – 1737. Cruden worked alone and produced the most consistent and complete concordance until the introduction of computerized indexing. As well as compiling occurrences, he also invented a new method of presentation, which showed the surrounding sentence rather than just the verse reference. It provided the literary context and so made the concordance significantly easier to handle for false positives. Cruden presented the first edition of his work on 3 November 1737 to Queen Caroline, but she died some days later without rewarding Cruden, who had to go into debt to finance the printing. The second edition of the Concordance was dedicated to King George III and presented to him in person on 21 December 1761; the King awarded Cruden £100 for his efforts. The third edition was published in 1769.
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