The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorised Translation; With All the Parallel Texts and Marginal Readings. To Which are Added Notes and Practical Observations, by Adam Clarke. London: Caxton Press for H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1837.
A STUNNING ILLUSTRATED KING JAMES BIBLE IN A HUGE FOLIO FORMAT. A VERY RARE BIBLE WHICH IS NOT RECORDED IN HERBERT'S CANONICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FOR WHICH WE COULD NOT TRACE ANY OTHER EXTANT COPIES!
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Adam Clarke was a British Methodist theologian who served three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. A biblical scholar, he published an influential Bible commentary among other works. He was a Wesleyan.
He is chiefly remembered for writing a commentary on the Bible which took him 40 years to complete and which was a primary Methodist theological resource for two centuries. Comments on this work are mixed, but recognise its erudition. By himself he produced nearly half as much material as the scores of scholars who collaborated on the twelve-volume The Interpreters' Bible. His commentary, particularly that on Revelation, very controversially identified the Catholic Church with the Antichrist.
Clarke followed Wesley in opposing a Calvinistic scheme of salvation, preferring instead the Wesleyan-Arminian positions regarding predestination, prevenient grace, the offer of justification to all persons, the possibility of entire sanctification, and assurance of salvation.
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This Bible is incredibly scarce, WorldCat records no extant copies held in any institution worldwide and we can trace no sales records. A very rare and particularly beautifully illustrated edition in a lovely huge blindstamped binding.
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Size: 292 x 455 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[vii, 1180pp]
Contemporary full black calf binding. Gilt dulled to spine with a little loss but generally shows well. Rebacked relaying the earlier, probably original, backstrip replacing the original endpapers and pastedowns but preserving the blanks. Blindstamped black calf boards, a little scuffed and rubbed but generally very good. Some discolouration to page edges but generally very good. Both boards are securely attached with hinges reinforced. Internally very good and bright throughout. Verso of portrait frontis heavily foxed, also some foxing to main frontis. Maps in the New Testament foxed and toned.
A lovely huge King James Bible.
