Expository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherein the Sacred Text is at Large Recited, the Sense Explained, and the Instructive Example of the Blessed Jesus, and His Holy Apostles, to Our Imitation Recommended. The Whole Designed to Encourage the Reading of the Scriptures in Private Families, and to Render the Daily Perusal of Them Profitable and Delightful. By William Burkitt, M.A., Late Vicar and Lecturer of Dedham in Essex. The Thirteenth Edition Carefully Corrected; and Adorned with Seventy Eight Curious Copper Plates, Together with a Map of All the Places Mentioned in the New Testament. London: Printed for R. Ware, et al., MDCCLII (1752).
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Illustrated with numerous beautiful plates, including a foldout plate, and a very large foldout map at the end of the text block.
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Size: 260 x 382 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[frontis, t.p., iii-viii, 878pp., foldout map]
Full brown calf with a brown tooled label to the spine in a compartment between raised bands. Binding rubbed and scuffed, more so to extremities. Both boards attached with cracked joints and hinges, thus fragile. Shelf and edge wear. Red page edges somewhat dulled. Residue to the front pastedown from a removed bookplate. Faded and thus illegible ownership inscription to the head of the title page. Ownership inscription to the head of pp.1. Edge toning to endpapers as commensurate with the full leather bindings. Text block very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Small edge tears to the margins of two leaves, pp.283/284 and pp.285/286. Very small ink stain to pp.878 covering parts of two words.
[OCLC 1062297980].
