The self-interpreting Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments according to the authorized version : with an introduction, marginal references and illustrations, a summary of the several books, an analysis of each chapter, a paraphrase and evangelical reflections upon the most important passages, and numerous explanatory notes / by John Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, John, 1722-1787.

Cooke, H. (Henry), 1788-1868.

Books in Parts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bible. English. Authorized

Language:

English

Genre:

Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Physical Description:

74 parts (xvii, 1030, 122 pages) : illustrations ; 42 cm

Edition:

New edition / in which the text is more fully elucidated by upwards of eight thousand explanatory and critica notes, and concluding observations on each book, by Henry Cooke.

Other Title:

Brown's self-interpreting Bible

Wrapper title: Brown's self-interpreting family Bible

Place of Publication:

New York : Johnson, Fry and Co., [1859?]

Notes:

General t.p. and added New Testament t.p. issued in no. 65/66; added engraved general t.p. issued in no. 1.

Date from Hills, Engl. Bible in Amer.

"To be completed in one volume folio ... Numbers 9 and 10, and the suceeding parts, will be put into double parts ... "--Prospectus.

"The books of the Apocrypha will form four additional double numbers."--No. 65/66, front wrapper.

Parts issued in tan paper wrappers printed with publisher's prospectus or advertisements.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.

Penn Libraries copy housed in 2 boxes.

Penn Libraries copy has many leaves unopened.

Cited in:

Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer., 1691

OCLC:

84395748