1830 – Charles Spurgeon Lectures & Baptist Writings | Greek Bible | 2 Volumes

A charming lot of 2 volumes of religious texts, “Lectures to My Students” by Charles Spurgeon and a Greek Polyglot Bible published in London circa 1830. Bagster’s Greek Bibles are prized among collectors for their clean Greek typography, the integration of variant readings, and their influence on the distribution of biblical texts in England during the early Victorian era. This example features both the Septuagint text based on the Vatican edition and the New Testament based on Mill and Griesbach, making it a desirable reference point for students of textual criticism and for collectors of early English biblical scholarship. This copy is preserved in its original black leather binding with attractive blind tooling, an appealing survival from the 1830s.

Spurgeon’s Lectures had the goal of publishing to help readers become more effective expositional preachers, emphasizing practical and natural approaches to communication in ministry, free from conventionalism and pretense yet rooted in the teachings of the Bible.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Η ΠΑΛΑΙΑ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΒΔΟΜΗΚΟΝΤΑ. ID EST VETUS TESTAMENTUM SECUNDUM SEPTUAGINTA SENIORUM INTERPRETATIONEM JUXTA EXEMPLAR VATICANUM SUMMA CURA DENUO RECUSUM; ADJICIUNTUR EDITIONIS GRABIANAE VARIAE LECTIONES.

Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ· NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, AD EXEMPLAR MILLIANUM, CUM EMENDATIONIBUS ET VARIIS LECTIONIBUS GRIESBACHII.

• Author: Bible
• Contributor: Johann Jakob Griesbach (Variant Readings) John Mill (Textual Base)
• Publisher: London, Samuel Bagster, 15 Paternoster Row.
• Edition: Early Bagster Printing, circa 1830s
• Binding: Full black leather with blind stamped boards
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Size: ~6.5 in x 4.25 in (16.5 cm x 11 cm)
• Collation: [65], 585; [4], 22, [3], 188, [1]
• Provenance: Stamp of Rev. C.H. Evelyn-White, Rampton Rectory, Cambridge. Charles Harold Evelyn-White (1850–1938) was an English clergyman and antiquarian who relaunched the East Anglian, an antiquarian journal, and established the Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society.
• Contents Include:
  • Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint
  • New Testament in Greek following Mill’s text
  • Extensive Griesbach variant readings
  • Tables of readings and critical notes

• Title: Lectures to My Students: A Selection from addresses delivered to the students of the Pastors’ college, metropolitan tabernacle.
• Author(s): Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Publisher: New York: Sheldon & Company
• Edition: First Series 1875
• Format: Duodecimo (12mo), four volumes
• Binding: Original terracotta publisher’s cloth
• Size: ~7.75 in x 5.25 in (19.5 cm x 13 cm)
• Collation: 297, [3]
• Provenance: Handwritten: Emanuel Northup
• Contents Include:
  • Preaching and Sermon Delivery
  • Ministerial Character and Routine
  • Illustrative Techniques

Condition:

Good. Cloth binding is secure, moderate rubbing to corners and spine ends; leather is rubbed at corners and along the spine, with slight separation at the front inner hinge at the head of the spine. Text blocks clean and complete, with consistent age-toning to the pages. Occasional annotations in the Greek Bible from a previous reader.

Why Collect This?

• Spurgeon’s complete lectures
• Includes hard-to-find Commenting & Commentaries
• Useful to students of theology and church history
• Early Bagster Polyglot Bible combining Septuagint and New Testament texts
• Desirable original full leather binding with blind stamping
• Valuable for textual criticism due to Mill and Griesbach apparatus
• Represents an important period in English biblical printing and scholarship
• Attractive addition to any biblical studies or polyglot Bible collection

Item Number: #31245