4to. xviii + 1013pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary calf, gilt spine and borders. Alexander Cruden (1701-70) was a bookseller and editor; in 1735 he was made bookseller to the Queen. The first edition of his Concordance was published in 1737, the third edition of 1769 was dedicated to the King. The present edition contains the author's prefaces to earlier editions, and a history of Concordances from the first compiled, by the Dominican Friar, Hugo de S. Charo (d.1262). The life of the author is entertainingly frank. Cruden's Concordance is still published. Generally well preserved, front cover detached, occasional faint foxing. Ownership signature on title-page, 'Andrew Lawson 1822'; notes inside front and back cover. (extra postage due to weight).

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Title: A complete concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament or a dictionary and alphabetical index to the Bible . to which is added, a concordance to the books called Apocrypha . the eighth edition, carefully revised and corrected . to which is added, a life of the author.
Publisher: Berwick, printed by and for W. Gracie, 1817.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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