The sacred classics defended and illustrated. The second and last volume. In three parts. Containing, I. A. farther demonstration of the propriety, purity, and sound eloquence of the language of the New Testament writers. II. An account of the wrong division of chapters and verses, and faulty translations of the divine book, which weaken its reasonings, and spoil its eloquence and native beauties. III. A discourse on the various readings of the New Testament. With a preface, wherein is shewn the necessity and usefulness of a new version of the sacred books. By the late Reverend and Learned A. Blackwall, A.M. author of the first volume. To which is annex’d, a very copious index.
Anthony Blackwall (1674-1730)
Category
Books
Date
1731
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3003490
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxi, [1], 359, [25] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 4to. Running number: 2789. Shelved and uniform with vol. 1 (1725). Imperfect: wanting frontispiece plate. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; double gilt fillet border; blind roll on board edges; gilt fillets and title label on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Anthony Blackwall (1674-1730)