Classic Reprints No. 1
The Influence of the English Bible upon the English Language and upon English and American Literature
By Oscar Joseph
1935
22 pages
$10.00
Prepared in 1935 on the commemoration of four hundred years of the printed English
Bible, this work surveys the influence of the English Bible on writers such
as Shakespeare, Shelley, Burns, Coleridge, Tennyson, Dickens,
and Poe.
Classic Reprints No. 2
An Epistle to the Learned Nobilitie of England. Touching Translating the Bible
from the Original, with Ancient Warrant for Everie Worde, unto the Full Satisfaction
of Any That be of Hart
By Hugh Broughton
1597
60 pages
$10.00
Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), a famed English Hebrew scholar,
is most remembered for his attacks on the King James Bible when it was first
published. This "epistle" was
written before the translators were selected, and after Broughton had left
England for the Continent.
Classic Reprints No. 17
John Wycliffe
By Daniel Curry and C. E. Barrows
1853, 1879
69 pages
$10.00
Two nineteenth-century Baptist ministers each provide concise yet supplementary
biographies of John Wycliffe and his role in translating the Bible into English.
Classic Reprints No. 32
William Tindale and the English Bible
By Henry Guppy
1925, 1936
66 pages
$10.00
Written by the noted former librarian of the John Rylands library of the
University of Manchester, and reprinted by special permission, this book
includes two
articles on William Tyndale and the English Bible. The first is
a brief sketch of the life of Tyndale written on the occasion of the
four hundredth anniversary of his death. The second is an account of
Tyndale and his Bible and those who translated the Bible into English
before him. Illustrated with twelve plates, including a likeness
of Tyndale.
Classic Reprints No. 44
Notes on the Amended English Bible With Special Reference to Certain Texts
in the Revised Version of the Old and New Testaments Bearing upon the Principles
of Unitarian Christianity
Henry Ierson
1887
188 pages
$20.00
Originally published by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, this
book was written after the publication of the Revised Version (1885) to show
how the corrections to the Authorized Version found in the Revised Version
are in line with the principles of Unitarianism. Although written by a Unitarian,
and written in favor of the Revised Version, this book is actually
an indictment of modern versions of the Bible since they for the most part
follow the readings of the Revised Version.
Classic Reprints No. 49
The Matthew and Taverner Bibles
By Harold Hutson and Harold R. Willoughby
1938, 1939
31 pages
$10.00
Two articles on the early English Bibles of Thomas Matthew (1537) and Richard
Taverner (1539).
Classic Reprints No. 50
The Coverdale Psalter and the Quatrocentenary of the Printed English Bible
By Harold Willoughby
1935
38 pages
$10.00
Written on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the first translation
of the whole Bible into English, this is a detailed study of the Coverdale
Bible and Coverdale Psalter, which survives today in the Book of Common Prayer.
Classic Reprints No. 64
The Popular History of the Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the
English Tongue
By Thomas J. Conant
Revised Edition
1881
295 pages
$35.00
Originally written by Mrs. Hannah Conant in 1856, this revised edition was
authored by her husband, Thomas J. Conant (1802-1891), one of the premier
Baptist scholars of the nineteenth century. Dr. Conant was active in the
Bible revision
efforts of the American Bible Union. The unique contribution of this work
to English Bible history is that it gives the subject a Baptist perspective
not
commonly found in works of this nature.
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A reprint of one of the oldest extant histories of the English Bible. Because he could not find "any perfect Account of Translations of the Bible into our own National Language," the author "purposed to collect" what he "had observed to lie scattered up and down in our Historians, and other Writers relating thereunto."
Classic Reprints No.
105
The Significance of
the Lollard Bible
By
Margaret Deanesly
1507
23 pages
$10.00
This is the Ethel M. Wood lecture on the Wycliffe Bible delivered before the University of London by the Emeritus Professor of History at that university. Deanesly is acknowledged to be a noted scholar of the Wycliffe Bible.
Classic Reprints No.
111
A Plain Account of the English Bible
By John Henry Blunt
1870
125 pages
$15.00
This brief history of the English Bible, "from the earliest times of its
translation to the present day," is one of the few accounts of this nature
written before the advent of the Revised Version. The author closes with a
chapter on "Recent Movements for the Revision of the English Bible" in
which he states that results of the newly formed revision committee "will
have to pass through a severe fire of criticism before it takes its place as a
new Authorized Version."
Classic Reprints No.
112
Our English Bible
The White Lectures
1938
95 pages
$10.00
These six lectures on the English Bible were delivered y various contributors at
St. Paul's Cathedral in London "in view of the commemoration of the Fourth
Centenary of the setting up of the Bible in the English language in our parish
Churches." The lectures are prefaced with a Foreword by the Archdeacon of
London, who calls the English Bible "the greatest gift of the Reformation
to us."
Classic Reprints No.
113
The English Bible
By George P. Marsh
1860
27 pages
$10.00
This essay on the English
Bible is taken from the author's Lectures on the English Language.
Classic Reprints No.
115
Three Hundred Years of Printing the Bible
1629-1929
1929
31 pages
$10.00
Issued by Cambridge
University Press in 1929 to commemorate the tercentenary of the printing of the
Authorized Version at at Cambridge, this is a brief but official account of the
printing of the Authorized Version by Cambridge University Press. Includes a
likeness of the title page of the first Cambridge edition of the Authorized
Version. To this has been added the related 1936 article "Three Centuries
of the English Bible."
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Classic Reprints No. 147
History of the English Bible
By
Henry P. Cameron
1885
192 pages
$20.00
A popular history of the English Bible related "as concisely as
possible." The largest chapters are on the Authorized Version and the
then-newly published Revised Version.
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Memoir of the Life and Writings of William Tyndale
By George Offor
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A Short History of the English Bible, with Brief
Notices of the Translators
By J. M. Freeman
New and Revised Edition
1891
84 pages
$10.00
The author states that the design of his work "is to give, in condensed
form, the prominent facts relating to this subject, seeking to point the way to
more elaborate works rather than to supersede them."
Classic
Reprints No. 165
Our English Bible
By The Religious Tract Society
1848
192 pages
$20.00
The unnamed author states in his preface that "this little Volume supplies
a succinct account of English translations and translators, derived from
original authorities." And although he acknowledges that he also wrote the
introduction to "Bagster's Hexapla" on the history of the English
Bible, this is "a perfectly distinct and independent work, and contains the
result of the Author's latest researches."
Classic
Reprints No. 166
Notes on the History and Text of Our Early
English Bible, and of Its Translation into Welsh
By George Leader Owen
1901
80 pages
$10.00
A brief work, but valuable for its thirteen pages on the history of the
translation of the Bible into Welsh.
Classic
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The History of the English Bible
By T. Harwood Pattison
1894
297 pages
$35.00
The unique contribution of this work to English Bible history is that it gives
the subject a Baptist perspective not commonly found in works of this nature. In
addition to giving the history of the early English Bibles, the author also has
chapters on "The Bible in English Literature," "The Bible and the
Nation," and "The Bible and Spiritual Life."
Classic Reprints No.
168
Some Notices of the Genevan Bible
By Nicholas Pocock
1882-1884
33 pages
$10.00
Reprinted from The Bibliographer, this is a
eight-part article on the Geneva Bible by a noted historian of the English
Bible.
