Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures

Horne, Thomas Hartwell

Published by E. Littell, Philadelphia, 1831, 1827

About this Item

In-4. 3 Vol. 650, 816, 583. Folding map, 7 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary 3/4 vellum. Horne wrote more than forty works in bibliography, Bible commentaries, and Christian apologetics. One of his best known works is the three-volume Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures that was published in 1818. This work enjoyed widespread circulation in Britain and North America and went through at least eleven editions during the nineteenth century. It was reissued in North America in 1970. Horne also produced a "Tree Full of Bible Lore," a tree-shaped text of statistics on the Bible, in which he counted the number of books, chapters, verses, words, and even letters. He ended this tree with "It [the Bible] contains knowledge, wisdom, holiness and love." (This "tree" is reproduced in the third series of Ripley's paperbacks, originally published hardbound in 1949.) He wrote an Introduction to the Study of Bibliography (1814), and various other works. Over a period of four years he catalogued the Harleian manuscripts then held at the British Museum. W52.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
• Publisher: E. Littell, Philadelphia, 1831
• Publication Date: 1827
• Binding: Encuadernación de tapa dura
• Condition: Muy bien