The Cottage Bible Vol.1 1834. Plates & Maps. Leather. Christopher Voorhees Copy
COTTAGE BIBLE
AND FAMILY EXPOSITOR;
CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,
With Practical Expositions and Explanatory Notes,
BY
THOMAS WILLIAMS
To Which Are Added the References and Marginal Readings of the
Polyglott Bible
together with original notes, and selections from Bagster's comprehensive Bible, and other standard works, introductory and concluding remarks on each book of the Old and New Testaments and a valuable chronological index.
The whole carefully revised and adapted to the use of sunday schools, Bible classes and Christians generally.
Embellished with maps and engravings
Edited by the Rev. William Patton
Complete in two volumes
Volume I only
The Old Testament
Hartford, CT: D. F. Robinson and H. F. Sumner, 1834.
Hardcover. Full leather with gilt spine lettering on black labels, quarto, 736 two-column pages, 6 engraved plates and three maps.
The front paste down and rear endpaper were inscribed by the original owner:
“Christopher VA Voorhees
This book was bought July 2nd 1834. Price $5.50”
Christopher Van Arsdale Voorhees of Somerville (Somerset County) New Jersey, was born on February 23 1811, in Somerville. He was married to Catherine Jane Voorhees (born Covert)
The Cottage Bible And Family Expositor: Containing The Old And New Testaments, With Practical Expositions And Explanatory Notes was an 1824 study Bible, compiled by Thomas Williams (1755–1839).
The Cottage Bible printed text deemed unsuitable for family reading in smaller type, and exchanged "some phrases also exceptionable to females" for others "more suitable to the present state of our language and of society". The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record objected to this as a "violation of the purity of the sacred text". The American edition of 1833 printed the whole text in uniform type.
CONDITION:
Good. (The leather covers are worn at edges and corners, leather is scuffed and rubbed, spine lettering is faded. The front endpaper has a closed tear at the fore-margin. The endpapers and Title Page are foxed, as are the plates and margins of the maps. The text is complete and generally lightly or occasionally moderately, foxed. The binding is tight. A few pages have a small bent corner.)
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