CRUDEN'S COMPLETE CONCORDANCE

The Complete Concordance, to the Old and New Testament, or a Dictionary and Alphabetical Index to the Bible with a complete table of proper names with their meanings in the orginal languages, a Concordance to the proper names of the Old and New Testament, a Concordance to the Apocrypha, and a compendium of the Holy Scriptures etc. etc. By Alexander Cruden, with a memoir by William Youngman.

Frederick warne and Co. Edition. No date found. Hard cover. 719 pages. Very good condition. Library card holder in the back. Rubber stamp of former owner in front. Rust spots in front and back. Over 1kg.

A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, generally known as Cruden's Concordance, is A CONCORDANCE a of the King James Bible (KJV) that was singlehandedly created by Alexander Cruden (1699–1770). The Concordance was first published in 1737 and has not been out of print since then. Two editions of the Concordance appeared during his lifetime, 1761 and 1769. (Reference 1955 edition) Cruden's concordance was first published in 1737, one of the first copies being personally presented to Queen Caroline on November 3, 1737. Cruden began work on his concordance in 1735 whilst a bookseller in London. Cruden worked alone from 7am to 1am every day and completed the bulk of the work in less than a year. The proofreading and layout took a little longer. His brain was occupied with nothing else, so much so that he failed to notice the diminishing stock in his bookshop and the consequent lack of custom. "Was there ever, before or since the year 1737", writes his biographer, Edith Oliver "another enthusiast for whom it was no drudgery, but a sustained passion of delight, to creep conscientiously word by word through every chapter of the Bible, and that not once only, but again and again?".

Although a remarkable feat, the concordance was not entirely without error. The Times recorded that Cruden left out Buz (brother of Huz) and Sneeze (put under Neeze).In fact, the name "Chloe" was missing until a revised edition was published in 1930.