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critical and explanatory, partly practical. They are taken from nearly two hundred writers, British and foreign. — Another annotated Bible was edited by the Rev. C. Wellbeloved, The Holy Bible, a New Translation, with introductory remarks, notes explanatory and critical, and practical reflections, 2 vols., London, 1838. It is Unitarian and designed principally for the use of families.
The standard English version of the Roman Catholics (the "Douai" Bible; see Bible Versions. B, IV, § 5), was provided with notes setting forth and defending the Roman standpoint. The later annotated English Bibles of the Catholics are based chiefly upon these notes. Richard Challoner (q.v.) and George Leo Haydock (The Holy Bible, 2 vols., Manchester, 1S11-14; revised Reims and Douai text with extensive notes) are well-known Roman Catholic annotators. Most of the "minor versions " enumerated in § 8 of the article on English versions (Bible Versions, B, IV) are annotated.
The popular works of England were reissued in America. The first American edition of Scott's commentary was printed and published by W Woodward of Philadelphia in 1804 in 4 vols. Other issues followed by different publishers, most of them from the press of Woodward of Philadelphia, and that of Samuel T. Armstrong of Boston. The most popular form of the book was an octavo of six volumes. Scott's Bible had a continuous sale for more than forty years, and as late as 1844 W E. Dean, 2 Ann Street, New York, published an edition in three volumes. — Adam Clarke's commentary was published by Ezra Sargeant, 86 Broadway, New York, in 1811. — Osterwald's Observations appeared in 1813 with this imprint: " New York: Published by Evert Duyckinck, John Tiebout, G. & R. Waite, and Websters & Skinners of Albany. George Long, Printer." — The first American edition of Matthew Henry's Exposition appeared in Philadelphia in 1816, 1V. Repul,~ published by Towar and Hogan in six ica ion volumes. They also issued a stereo- America tyPed edition in three volumes in 1829. Burder and Hughes of the same city issued a six volume edition in 1828, with preface by Archibald Alexander. — D'Oyly and Mant's Bible with commentary was reprinted in New York in 1818-20 by T. and J. Swords, 160 Pearl Street. This edition has additional notes from the pen of the Rt. Rev. John H. Hobart, D.D., bishop of New York, who quotes from a large number of Biblical scholars, mainly in the Anglican, Scottish, and American Episcopal Churches, who had not been noticed by the English editors. — Thomas Williams's Cottage Bible, reedited by the Rev. William Patton, was printed in two octavo volumes by Conner & Cooke, New York, in 1833. It contains numerous engravings and several maps, and was intended chiefly for the use of Sundayschools and Bible-classes. The plates were sold by the New York printers, and in after-years the editions were issued at Hartford, Conn. — Greenfield's Comprehensive Bible was issued in 1839 with the imprint of " Robinson & Franklin, successors to Leavitt, Lord & Co., 180 Broadway." The
book is a thick quarto of 1 ,460 pages. The American issue was also published by Lippincott, Gambo & Co., Philadelphia, in 1854, and by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1857 Canne's marginal notes and references appeared in many editions of American household and family Bibles, and John Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible was frequently reproduced. The American Tract Society early published a family Bible with brief notes and instructions and many editions were printed. Eugene Cummiskey, of Philadelphia, published various editions for Roman Catholics, such as The Holy Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with annotations, references, etc. Isaiah Thomas, the famous author of the History of Printing in America, published and sold the Authorized Version with notes at his press in Worcester Mass.; various editions appeared after 1791.
One of tne earliest productions of the Philadelphia press was The Christian's New and Complete Family Bible, published by William Woodhouse in 1790. It was issued in numbers, and the Rev. Paul Wright, D.D., vicar of Oakley, is supposed to have been the editor. — The Columbian Family and Pulpit Bible bears the imprint, "Boston: Published by Joseph Teal, printed by J. H. A. Frost, opposite U. S. Bank, Congress Street, 1822." It claims to be a " corrected and improved American edition of the Popular English Family Bible," supplied " with concise notes and annotations, . theological, historical, chronological, . ripna crjtiCal, practical, moral, and ex- Works planatory"; also containing " sundry important received various readings from the most ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and the most celebrated versions of Scripture. Also, sundry corrections and improvements of our excellent English version (generally admitted by learned Christians of every name) with references to authors, versions, and manuscripts; also, an illustrative argument prefixed to each sacred book or epistle, from the best authorities." The volume is a folio, embellished with thirty-six engravings. The book was issued in numbers and had more than three thousand subscribers. The Rev. Jonathan Homer, D.D., of Newton, Mass., revised the observations, and condensed some of the notes and enlarged others. — In 1826 The Collateral Bible made its appearance with the following imprint: " Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel F Bradford, and by E. Bliss and E. White, New York. J. Harding, Printer, 1826." This book was edited by William McCorkle, assisted by the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, and the Rev. Gregory T. Bedell, A.M., rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia. " In this work the best marginal references are printed at large, and in connection with every passage, by which means every parallel or related phrase in the sacred volume is brought at once under the eye, so as to present the whole scope and subject of every text at a single view " (Home, Biblical Bibliography, p. S(V'. The three volumes comprised only the Old Testament, and the New Testament part was never attempted.— The Devotional Family Bible was edited by the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, D.D.,