A HISTORY OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES IN EVERY LANGUAGE AND DIALECT INTO WHICH TRANSLATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE: ILLUSTRATED WITH SPECIMEN PORTIONS IN NATIVE CHARACTERS; Series of Alphabets; COLOURED ETHNOGRAPHICAL MAPS, TABLES, INDEXES, ETC. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. WAREHOUSE FOR BIBLES, NEW TESTAMENTS, PRAYER BOOKS, LEXICONS, GRAMMARS, CONCORDANCES. TO HIS GR A CE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, MY LORD, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC. Ir is with peculiar pleasure I avail myself of the permission to dedicate the "BIBLE OF EVERY LAND" to your Grace. The high honour of having extensively promoted the general spread of the Sacred Scriptures belongs in an especial manner to your Grace, and renders the association of this Work with your Grace's name truly gratifying. I rejoice in placing my humble effort in the same great cause under your Grace's patronage. My gratitude for this distinguished favour, so kindly bestowed, will increase my endeavour to attain the highest possible degree of completeness and accuracy in the prosecution of the Work. I have the honour to subscribe myself, MY LORD, Your Grace's much obliged and very humble Servant, SAMUEL BAGSTER. 15, PATERNOSTER Row, 1848. |