Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th March 1890, Edition 1 of 1, Page 344, * — - . "\l

BAGSTER'S Comprehensive Teachers' Bible , WITH N £ WHELPS , NEW CONCORDANCE , INDEXED ATLAS , AND THE COMPLETE BAGSTER BIBLE , ' WHAT EDITION OF THE BIBLE SHALL I BUY P * Thebe has been placed upon our desk a copy of " The Comprehensive Teachers ' Bible , " recently issued by S . Bagster & Sons , Limited , London , and bearing the imprint of James Pott & Co ., New York . We have given the book a careful examination , and are prepared to give our opinion as to its intrinsic and relative merits . 4 As to letterpress and binding , Bagster ' s Bibles have never been excelled by any house . But for the past few years the " Oxford Teachers' Edition " has taken the lead on account of the superior " Helps to the Study of the Bible" that accompany that edition . During all these years , the great London publishers have not been indifferent to the wants and demands of Bible students , and now they have brought out the most perfect Teachers' Bible that has ever been published . The size of the print is the same as the corresponding 8 vo . " Oxford , " but it is clearer and more agreeable to the eye . The page is larger by half an inch in length and width , so that the book is better shaped and is not clumsy in appearance . The text of the " Oxford " occupies-1 , 000 pages ; while that of the " Bagster " fills but 773 . * The superior excellence , however , of the " Bagster" is seen in " The Comprehensive Helps to Bible Study , " which are found in the back part of the book . These comprise sufficient matter of the most valuable character to fill four good-sized 12 mo . volumes . ' In the " Contents " of the ' * Oxford Helps " there are 582 subjects noted ; in the 44 Bagster " there are 1 , 800 . 4 This will give an idea of the fulness of information given . But the quality ol this matter is of the very highest order . It has evidently been prepared by some master workman , who knows what the ordinary Bible student wants to know , and who possesses the happy faculty of expressing his thoughts in the most perspicuous manner . ? If a copy of this Bible could be placed in the hands of all the Sunday School Teachers in the Church , and then if they could be induced to read thoughtfully these " Helps , " it would prove an untold blessing to millions , for every scholar would reap q , measure of the benefit . ' From an editorial in recent issue of the l Christian Advocate , ' by Rev . S . McGerald , DJ > . LONDON : S . BAGSTE & & SONS , LIMITED , 15 PATERNOSTER ROW , E . C . 1 —— — = m

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